Called A Dashboard for the Economy, this is on Geocommons and is just too cool to miss. It tracks stimulus spending, job creation, foreclosures, and other economic factors at a very detailed level, by town […]
President Obama and Transportation Secretary LaHood have just announced the release of $27 billion from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to the states to create upgrade transporation infrastructure including $17.7 billion geographically unrestricted $4.3 […]
According to FederalComputerWeek toward the end of February the The US House of Representatives passed a $410 billion 2009 Omnibus Appropriations Act, H.R.1105. The bill would fund $151.8 billion for labor, health and education $20.5 […]
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has formed the Spatial Law and Policy Committee (SLPC). Increasingly, public and private sector users and data and technology vendors have to be prepared for a wide range of legal […]
Monday, Harald Wolf, Senator for Economics, Technology and Women’s Issues and Mayor of Berlin presented a virtual 3D model of the entire city available on Google Earth , including some 890 km2 and 500,000 buildings. […]
The Guardian reports that the UK government has just evened the procurement field for open source software . This means that open source software companies are able to respond to RFPs from the UK Government […]
A little while ago I blogged about a GPS-enabled inexpensive digital camera , a Nikon P6000, that I had just acquired. Since then I have used it lot all over the world, and my conclusion […]
In What is Web 2.0? Tim O’Reilly distinguishes Web 2.0 from the first generation of Web applications and to me the most important differentiator is participation. Web 2.0 technology enables all of us to participate […]