Category Archives: open source

Socrata Offers Developers and OpenData Enthusiasts Hackathon In A Box

Posted on May 14, 2013 by glenn

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 →

Posted in crowdsource, developer, open source, opendata, opengov |

Editing OpenStreetMap (OSM) Just Got Really Easy With iD Map Editor

Posted on May 9, 2013 by glenn

There’s no arguing that OpenStreetMap (OSM) has exploded in use and popularity, heck, just look at the basemap layer options in any online web mapping services and you’ll see OSM as an option. Often considered the wikipedia of the mapping … Continue reading →

Posted in howto, open source, opendata, OSM |

OpenStreetMap Edit-A-Thons Coming to 16 Cities

Posted on April 13, 2013 by glenn

A whole bunch of OSM mappers will be getting together next week (April 20) in a cool effort to help build out the basemap in a cool event designed to spread the word and get a whole bunch of edits … Continue reading →

Posted in events, open source, OSM |

Opening up Colorado With Open Data and Hackathons

Posted on April 5, 2013 by glenn

I’ve been spending a little bit of time sniffing our OpenData resources, open government portals and related efforts (if you have details of a useful Open Government resource, portal or repository please share HERE). While doing so I’ve also stumbled … Continue reading →

Posted in colorado, events, open source, opengov |

Your Very Own Balloon Mapping Kit from PublicLab

Posted on April 2, 2013 by glenn

Balloon mapping, you’ve seen and heard about this cool, crowd-sourced effort to capture aerial imagery and low-altitude aerial photography. Well now, thanks to PublicLab (an awesome effort) you can buy your very own balloon mapping kit for just $95. These … Continue reading →

Posted in imagery, open source, opengov |

Nominations Ending for Open Source for America Awards

Posted on March 21, 2013 by glenn

Nominations for the Open Source for America Awards closes on Friday, March 22 so you better get your nominations in people! Each year, Open Source for America recognizes individuals, projects, and deployments that support its mission to encourage free and … Continue reading →

Posted in contest, open source |

State of The Map USA, San Fran June 8-9, 2013

Posted on February 18, 2013 by glenn

Looks like Geogeeks will be converging on San Fran this June for another SOTMUSA – State of the map USA. The organizing committee, via their blog, have invited geeks to plan to connect with other mappers, skill up on mapping, … Continue reading →

Posted in developers, events, open source, OSM |

Create and Share Awesome Maps Quickly with Mapbox

Posted on November 28, 2012 by glenn

There’s no question that we are all data collectors, many of us data hoarders but what to do with all that awesome data? Well, naturally the geographer in me wants to create a map. Indeed there’s plenty of choices out … Continue reading →

Posted in maps, mashup, open source |

OpenStreetMap among 6 media innovation ventures to share $2.2 million

Posted on September 20, 2012 by glenn

Some interesting news here as Six media innovation ventures that make it easier to access and use information on local communities, air quality, elections, demographics and more received a total of $2.22 million today as winners of the Knight News … Continue reading →

Posted in business, open source |

Open Source Web Mapping Architecture For Mapping Colorado Wildfires

Posted on July 19, 2012 by glenn

In an effort to keep the public informed and make data available to them during the recent wildfires near Colorado Springs, CO the company turned to open source as a solution. Their blog goes into details of how they luckily, … Continue reading →

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The Open Source Public Tree Inventory Platform – OpenTreeMap

Posted on April 11, 2012 by glenn

Ok, this one is simply too cool not to share! Imagine a complete, open source solution for developing, deploying, and managing an urban tree inventory/management system – enter the OpenTreeMap open Source Solution. Designed with institutions, government, and public agencies … Continue reading →

Posted in environment, open source |

Foursquare Uses OpenStreetMap OSM and MapBox Streets For New, Pretty Maps

Posted on February 29, 2012 by glenn

Yep, that’s correct, foursquare is now touting OSM as the basemap of choice! Announced today on the official foursquare blog (reserved usually for only BIG news) foursquare seems to think that the OSM maps are pretty and thus will be … Continue reading →

Posted in foursquare, open source, OSM |