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Location-enabled Society: Mapping tweets using real-time big data technology and privacy
In a very appropriately titled session Taking Society's Pulse in Real-time at the Creating the Policy and Legal Framework for a Location-enabled Society conference in Boston, one item really got people's attention focussed on the issues that arise from combining location with personal data. TweetMap is a technology that visualizes a large number of tweets on a map of the world. This is not the first time I have seen tweets mapped.unity SpatialNews
Summary: After some years of hype about cloud computing in general, the geospatial technology sector is seeing the emergence of a variety of interesting cloud-based geospatial products and services. Andes Consulting principal, Ignacio Guerrero, reviews the landscape of “the geospatial cloud” to provide a sense of the current state of the art. The title of this article was borrowed from a recent posting in Directions Magazine on Key Resources on Geospatial Cloud Computing .
Navigating Through the Nebulous Arena of "The Cloud"
The Google Maps of the Internet
Your Big Data is Big Enough - Information Management Blogs Article
I have been hearing from a few people who now think the term “big data” caught on a little too fast. Nobody is fighting it and can’t anyway; the term is embedded in the data lexicon and will stick in magazine, vendor and analyst headlines for a good long time. That’s partly because the topics around the term are entirely valid and timely.A few weeks ago, Mark Bowersox enlightened us on what is a PED . He also asked what TLA (three letter acronyms) confuse us. While I don’t find it confusing, EDU is a three letter string that is often on my mind.
Educating Future Geospatial Analysts | ImagerySpeaks
Wind Map
SpatialDash
Sound Energy Policy Depends on Geospatial Standards | Energy Dimensions
By Lance McKee The “ tragedy of the commons ” has become a widely understood concept.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) , Published Online 30 January 2012
Severe Mammal Declines Coincide with Proliferation of Invasive Burmese Pythons in Everglades National Park
GIS and Social Media Integration | Webinar | March 29, 2012
404 Page not found Uh oh - you've "found" something that doesn't exist GIS Salary Survey Results GIS Lounge is running a quick survey to look at the state of GIS salaries.A new Geospatial Centre for Biodiversity is being developed in Bolivia to “collect, assimilate, synthesize, distribute, and disseminate spatially explicit information and scientifically robust biodiversity knowledge to students, policy-makers, and the public to promote the sustainable management of Bolivia’s biodiversity as natural capital.” The new centre is being developed by Cranfield University alongside the Noel Kempff Mercado Museum of Natural History in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. With this information Bolivia hopes to protect their species diversity against the pressures of climate change and population. The project will mainly collect the wealth of information of plant and animal life, and digitize that into a Web-based platform open to Bolivia and the world.

