Subject: ‘Twitter’
September 5, 2011 GIS ConversationsCommunityMore and more, social media platforms such as Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, and Facebook are dominating when it comes to fostering debate about GIS issues. Comments on geoblogs are being shuttered in favor of conversations on social media sites. Forums, too, have declined in popularity. Only a handful of forums have regular and lively debates such ... read more May 24, 2011 Networking in GIS: Peer-to-Peer Support in the GIS CommunityCommunity, FeaturesGIS 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 ... read more April 13, 2011 USGS Launches a MashathonCommunityThe 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 ... read more February 23, 2011 Of Interest: Real-Time Middle East Tweet Mapping, Christchurch Earthquake MapsWeb MappingFollowing 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 ... read more July 23, 2010 America's Moods, Courtesy of TwitterMapsWhen 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 ... read more America’s Moods, Courtesy of TwitterMapsWhen 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 ... read more October 18, 2009 USGS Twitter Earthquake DetectorDataThe USGS is now testing out Twitter to collect early response information about earthquakes: “the USGS is developing a system that gathers real-time, earthquake-related messages from the social networking site Twitter and applies place, time, and quantity data to provide geo-located earthquake detection within 60 seconds of an event’s origin time.“ Social media can be ... read more |
