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Monday, July 8, 2013

Geothink.ca: How the Geospatial Web 2.0 is reshaping government-citizen interactions

Recently I鈥檝e been fortunate enough to be part of a team that has been awarded a for a 5-year study of 鈥淗ow the Geospatial Web 2.0 is reshaping government-citizen interactions鈥, also called . This is an unparalleled opportunity to make a long-term impact on emerging research themes of open data, citizen digital participation, and to trace the changing nature of geospatial data creation and use.

Saturday, January 8, 2011

Make your own user-contributed map with crowdmap.com

One of the most exciting Geoweb developments of 2010 has to be , a fully packaged, hosted, user-contributed mapping solution produced by the non-profit tech company . You may have heard of Ushahidi, the developers of collaborative map-making technology first used to gather reports of violence from cell phone users during the 2007 Kenyan election. This technology has since been used in many other crisis mapping situations, from the earthquake in Haiti, to the recent New York snowstorm.