August 14, 2013 – Anything Geospatial

There’s no question that ArcGIS Online is meant to enable anyone and everyone to access and use geospatial data in many creative ways – heck, using ArcGIS Explorer the sky is the limit on the kind of map you can create and share with anyone. Well, thanks to the gang at GeoJobe GIS Consulting (@geojobegis) soon you’ll be able to use their nifty ArcGIS plugin for WordPress – WOAH!!

Yes indeed, the plugin, coming soon, will be available in a free or pro version and reports to enable users to integrate the power of “where” into their WordPress blog posts – think tens of millions of potential users of your data. I bet now you’re thinking a little harder about maybe publishing your data via ArcGIS online! Check it out at http://www.geo-jobe.com/wp/ and register to be notified when you can get started.

How do you define the Northwest or the Rockies regions of America? Enter The Regional Differences Project – a cool project that lets users enter their definition of regions in an effort to crowd source regional differences and define the spatial makeup of the land… pretty cool! http://www.regionaldifferences.com/

From the project… This project is to collect data on where people think different regions of America are located. People from Texas and Florida have strong views on whether or not they are part of the “South”, while people from Vermont and Connecticut and Georgia have different ideas about “New England”, and the “Midwest” might migrate a thousand miles depending on where you learned the term.

Draw region boundaries as you see them. You can submit as many or as few regions as you’d like.