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Archives for April 19, 2011

City of Vancouver Open Data Initiative Wins Innovation Award for VanMap

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Congrats to the City of Vancouver who has been named by BCBusiness Magazine as the Most Innovative Organization in British Columbia in 2010 for its Open Data Initiative. As this point in time, there are in excess of 125 datasets available for free download and more coming. Most of the datasets are spatially-based and are already available for viewing in VanMap, the City’s online web mapping tool (http://vancouver.ca/vanmap). They are available in multiple formats and most are updated on a monthly basis. A recent addition is business licenses issued by the City.

A link to BCBusiness Magazine’s announcement is available at http://www.bcbusinessonline.ca/2011/04/04/city-of-vancouver.

Some related news items of interest:

Thinking spaces – Geo social wiki from the Economist

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Thinking spaces social wiki
Originally uploaded by @gletham GIS, Social, Mobile Tech Images

The Economist Launches Thinking Spaces 2.0 – a location-based wiki of public thinking spaces. The application has a very appealing UI and simple registration. Once you sign up using the app on iPhone is a real treat. Create spaces, upload your thoughts and moments and even associate the post (like a photo) with a descriptive audio clip. Users can then share via Twitter or facebook as well.

The app is free, and there’s an online version at http://thinkingspace.economist.com for non-iPhone users. On the website, users can browse the thinking spaces contributed by our global community of Economist readers by location, tags or popularity.  – see more HERE

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Community Map Edits for Google Maps with Map Maker

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Have you ever had the need to make edits to a Google map? Google’s Map Maker service enables you to provide them with updates or additions to the map… it’s eerily similar to the way cool OpenStreetMap concept enlisting the help of the crowd. Using the Map Maker tools, users can quickly provide map updates, move place markers, outline buildings and much more – see more in this recent blog post on the Lat/Long blog. Submit and the edits are sent for “review”. This from Google… Once you have submitted content, this information may be edited by other users or moderators. At a later time, this content may be published in Google Maps for others to see and use. See more at http://www.google.com/mapmaker. This video below gives you a peek at the service


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