Category Archives: developer

The GCS Geospatial Big Data Webinar Series

GCS has announced a new webinar series focused on developing solutions to the challenges of Geospatial Big Data by leveraging the fusion of location analytics, mobile platforms and cloud technologies. The first webinar (June 12, 2013) will feature Montana Site … Continue reading

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Socrata Offers Developers and OpenData Enthusiasts Hackathon In A Box

The cool crew from Seattle-based Socrata are providing government users, opendata enthusiasts, developers, and others with a very cool OpenData resource in the form of a “hackathon in a box” – a toolbox of resources, documents, tools and other handy … Continue reading

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Dev Tip – Distribute your Android Apps in the Amazon Store

Are you an Android app developer? Well, given that Android is the World’s leading mobile OS it may be a good idea to think about it if you aren’t already. Some cool news for existing developers though as Amazon has … Continue reading

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Developers and @ChrisPirillo Take to the Skies in Ungrounded Hackathon

UnGrounded: a hack at 30,000 feet via Chris Pirillo (@ChrisPirillo) — Now here’s something geeky and dam cool from British airways – imagine a hackathon while you jet over the Atlantic on a flight from San Fran to London! Yes … Continue reading

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USGS Science Data Challenge Winners

Recently, the USGS invited developers, information scientists, biologists/ecologists, and scientific data visualization specialists to create applications for selected USGS datasets, presenting them in innovative and informative new ways – see App-lifying USGS Earth Science Data. The winner for Best Overall … Continue reading

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University of Waterloo Open Data API Enables Goose Dodging Map

This is awesome.. at the U of Waterloo (that’s in Ontario Canada) they have an open API and have recently come out with a pretty awesome map service that enables students to quickly create a map that routes you between … Continue reading

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Live Mapping of San Fran Transit with LiveBus

Transit data is co cool and there’s no doubt that the transit app (on mobile) is now the defacto go-to example for coolness when it comes to mobile app development rather than the previous favorite pizza finder or coffee house … Continue reading

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Getting Started With iOS 6 LBS / Mapping Apps – 10 Useful Docs

Are you Creating Location Aware Apps and Mapping Apps for Apple iOS 6 and the iPhone 5? Here’s 10 Must have documents for developers looking to migrate to iOS 6 or those looking to get started creating location-aware apps and … Continue reading

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Using Github to Fork Your Data and the Hello get world Example

Github is all the rage and becoming quite common (and useful) for many agencies, orgs and companies – just mention gihub or forking some data next time you walk past a Geo-Hipster and you’ll see them quickly get all excited! … Continue reading

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Generating A Buzz With APIs and IPAs

Yes indeed, just like any good GeoGeek I’m a HUGE beer fan (and lover of craft beer). And so it really shouldn’t be any huge surprise that perhaps THE most active discussion and picture hitting Twitter today from #DevSummit in … Continue reading

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Tweets from the GeoGeeks in Palm Springs at #DevSummit

No doubt some of you are in Palm Springs this week for the annual Esri BP Summit and the Dev Summit where team Esri will be showcasing their latest solution offerings and sharing their roadmap for the future… those of … Continue reading

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Ready for DevSummit, ArcGIS for Flex 3.2 and What’s new in ArcGIS Online

Esri DevSummit is just around the corner and that means that tons of news and updates will be rolling out of Redlands. This means that its also a great time to poke around the ArcGIS Online resource Center, EDN, and … Continue reading

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