GIS, Maps, Geo and Location Technology by @gletham
A few social media and social sharing tips for you web masters. A number of useful sharing resources have been rolled out enabling content creators to extend and share their content. Some of the tools announced this week include:
The internet operating system is a data operating system… Via Esri videos, Tim O’Reilly, founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media, explores the notion of the Internet becoming an Operating System with subsystems and applications that deliver services and the importance of data as the foundation of the future. O’reilly recognizes how mapping professionals have been living in the future for many years now… cool!
A new way to checkin with your social media resources comes this week via Quipster (for iPhone). the social app also connects with Twitter, facebook, and Twitter. From the developers… Quipster users can build their own communities and get recommendations on what to do around town – see more details in this announcement
Apple has released the popular productivity toolset, iWork, for iPhone (4) and iPod touch users, enabling users of the popular handheld devices to create presentations, and formatted documents while on the go. How it works… Keynote, Pages and Numbers import and export documents from iWork for Mac and Microsoft Office; print wirelessly using AirPrint™; and include beautiful Apple-designed themes and templates. All iWork apps now include improved document management with thumbnail images that let you find your files quickly, organize them and group them into folders using intuitive gestures. From the Tools button in the toolbar, you can easily share any presentation, document or spreadsheet without leaving the app.
See more details in this announcement
See Also: Apple to Unveil Next Generation Software at Keynote Address on Monday, June 6
This week, perhaps while you were sleeping, the team at GeoIQ launched GeoCommons 2.0, the newest version of its community site. According to the folks at GeoIQ, they’ve made some exciting enhancements to the GeoIQ platform that powers GeoCommons, resulting in better, faster performance, bigger data visualization, and cross browser support.
Since 2008 GeoCommons has provided access to over 508,000 freely available data layers, shared over 2.5 million data sets and been used to create 9.5 million maps across the web for its more than 27,000 registered users – please note, GeoIQ also makes available an open API to developers. Enhancements made available in GeoCommons 2.0 include:
● More powerful visualization engine: GeoCommons can now handle bigger data sets at an improved speed
● Cross-browser platform support: With newly added support for HTML5 and Flash, GeoCommons is supported by 99 percent of web browsers, users can also leverage the site’s full capabilities through an iPad interface.
● Easier data editing: Data can now be edited, filtered and queried within the GeoCommons workflow
● Revamped temporal analysis: An improved time slider
● Custom icon-creator
● Multi-attribute filtering
See more details in this official announcement
