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Robert Soden

Jan 6, 2010

New Mapnik Installer for OSX

Making beautiful custom map tiles keeps getting easier

Setting up Mapnik used to be one of the trickiest parts of our workflow. Dane Springmeyer's recent work on Mapnik Installers for OSX changes that, making it easy to install Mapnik and its needed Python bindings, and allowing for total integration...
Tom MacWright

Jul 15, 2009

Slippy Maps for Better Browsing and Visualization of Dense Data

Improving Maps for the Federal Education Budget Project

We just overhauled the maps for the Federal Education Budget Project with new custom slippy maps, using TIGER Census data along with OpenStreetMap data. The new mapping stack lets users browse all the nation’s school districts much faster,...
Eric Gundersen

May 13, 2009

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Opening Up Education Data: Funding, Demographic, and Achievement Data for almost 14,000 U.S. Public School Districts

Open Data and Strong Data Visualizations Heighten the Quality of Debate on Federal Education Funding

The New America Foundation’s Federal Education Budget Project just launched a new website that opens up the largest set of public data on the U.S. public education system. While the site targets policy makers and the press, with its unique...
Tom MacWright

Apr 21, 2009

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Mapnik Caching Using Squid

Rendering custom maps on our mapping servers (powered by Mapnik) with large shape files is processor intense, and thousands of requests per day lead to a serious concern as well as a clear solution: caching. We’ve now replaced all our in-house...
Bonnie Bogle

Apr 3, 2009

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O'Reilly Radar Looks at Open Data, Drupal, and Development Seed's work on StumbleSafely.com

James Turner from O'Reilly Radar just blogged about open data, Drupal, and specifically Development Seed's work with the DC government's data on StumbleSafely.com, a mashup we did in December using DC government data to map our favorite local bars...
Tom MacWright

Dec 18, 2008

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Get Over the First Hump In Making Completely Custom, Beautiful Maps: Install Mapnik on Ubuntu

How To Install Mapnik on Ubuntu 7-8 with mod_python

As many of you read earlier on this blog, we released Nice Map as a bridge for Drupal to better communicate with WMS servers. Jeff gave a nod to NASA’s free server, which is a great source for beautiful surface imagery and an easy way to test...
Jeff Miccolis

Nov 18, 2008

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Hey, That's a Nice Map! New Custom Mapping Module for Drupal

Nice Map Module Makes it Easy to Make Beautiful, Custom Maps on Drupal

Putting your content on a highly custom map is now as quick and as easy as putting those same nodes in a list. That’s because the Nice Map module can do the heavy lifting for you by acting as a WMS client that integrates with Views. A WMS...
Robert Soden

Oct 24, 2008

Putting Anti-Poverty Activists on the Map

Using Drupal and Mapnik for the UN's StandAgainstPoverty.org

Thousands of demonstrations took place around the world this past weekend in support of the Millennium Development Goals. The truly global nature of this event is a major source of its effectiveness and its legitimacy in the eyes of the...
Ian Cairns

Oct 22, 2008

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United Nations Uses Drupal for Anti-Poverty Event

Improved Usability, Multilingual Support, and Performance for StandAgainstPoverty.org

Last weekend two percent of the world’s population stood up together in solidarity to encourage the world’s governments to work to end global poverty and support the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals. The event, called...
Eric Gundersen

Jun 25, 2008

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Pandemic Preparedness: When Data Visualization and Workflow Matter

Mapping on-the-ground public health organizations' capacity to respond to outbreaks

We just finished working on the Pandemic Preparedness Capacity Project, a new tool for InterAction and USAID that will be used to help prevent the spread of catastrophic disease outbreaks, especially bird flu. The goal of the site is to both improve...

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