Tag: Twitter
GIS Forums for Discussing Geospatial Topics
Where can you go to get help with GIS issues? There are a variety of different web sites that can help with GIS questions, depending on the type of technical or general questions you have. While there are many GIS forums that have been set up, only a handful are truly active and serve as [...]
Networking in GIS: Peer-to-Peer Support in the GIS Community
GIS is a diverse field, requiring expertise in a range of areas ranging from cartography, systems administration, relational database management, programming, and of course, spatial analysis. Even the well-versed GIS professional will come across many difficult tasks that require guidance from others in the field. Unfortunately, GIS professionals tend to work solo or in small [...]
USGS Launches a Mashathon
The USGS has launched a competition to showcase The National Map data, products, services, and viewers in use. A geospatial ‘mashathon’ is similar to “map galleries”, just digital mashup galleries.Submissions can be live or in ‘beta’, working demo or screenshots, maps or applications, in your favorite tools or in The National MapViewer. Submissions can be web [...]
Of Interest: Real-Time Middle East Tweet Mapping, Christchurch Earthquake Maps
Following the unrest in the Middle East via Tweets has been made possible by developer Virender Ajmani. Tweets tagged with #bahrain, #egypt, #libya, and #iran are mapped out at intervals of 5 seconds on this Google Maps application (blog post from Ajmani here). ~via Got Geoint? Esri has published a social media map in partnership [...]
America's Moods, Courtesy of Twitter
When and where are Americans happiest? If you go by Twitter, Americans seem to feel the lightest in the early and late hours of the day (based on EST). West coast residents and Floridians seem to stand out as the overall happiest. Between September 2006 and August 2009, over 300 million tweets were analyzed by [...]
