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Big Data is, as Wikipedia puts it “data sets that grow so large that they become awkward to work with using on-hand database management tools.” Think every twitter post ever made or 10,000 peoples’ DNA sequences. Big data, I think, has a big brother which I’ll call Small Data. Small Data consists of data sets which are manageable using a spreadsheet yet either hard to obtain, hard to process in to meaningful results and non-obvious in how to visualize and share.MapOSMatic
MapOSMatic is a free software web service that allows you to generate maps of cities using OpenStreetMap data. A city map is made of two pages: As the data used to generate maps is coming from OpenStreetMap, you can freely (under the terms of OpenStreetMap license ) reuse, sell, modify, ... the generated maps. Create map More detailsIntroduction Recently I had the honour to support our friends and colleagues in Japan in the development of a service that shows the status of roads following the tragic earthquake and the even more disastrous tsunami. Setting up this service in the cloud took only a few hours and in the following I will walk through the components of this solution and the thoughts the led to this particular implementation path.

