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  • Justin Miller
    Sep 8, 2010
    Pre-release Look at MapBox on the iPad
    We are looking for a few last testers
    We're close to shipping version 1.0 of the MapBox iPad app, an interactive mapping app that lets you load highly custom maps - like the ones available on MapBox - on the iPad and visualize GeoRSS and KML over the maps. All the maps and the data run...
  • Eric Gundersen
    Jul 19, 2010
    3 comments
    ICT and Civic Engagement Strategies for the 2011 Nigeria Elections
    CSO meeting in Abuja, July 19th & 20th
    A host of civil society organizations gathered today in Abuja, Nigeria to share strategies and discuss tools for better monitoring the upcoming presidential elections (currently scheduled or January 2011). Against the backdrop of heavy...
  • Ian Cairns
    Jul 1, 2010
    4 comments
    Opening Up Data on International Public Health: Center for Health Market Innovations
    Mapping the global public health marketplace
    Results for Development just launched the Center for Health Market Innovations (CHMI), a project that opens up data on and maps public health projects happening around the world. This portal represents an important open data advance for the global...
  • Tom MacWright
    Apr 6, 2010
    The Next TileMill: Making a Simpler Map-Building Workflow
    With a focus on usability, error handling, and platform independence
    Since we released the alpha version of TileMill - a toolkit for rendering map tiles on the Amazon EC2 cloud - back in October, we've received a lot of feedback and ideas from its early adopters. In this post, I wanted to share with you where we see...
  • 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
    Jul 9, 2008
    Tracking Low-Level Internet Chatter in Specific Regions for Reputation Management
    “Even one negative consumer comment online can end up influencing many customers.” That’s a quote from Zhou Chunlan, CEO of Daqi, a Beijing-based reputation monitoring service recently profiled in Business Week that has gone to work for several...
  • Ian Cairns
    May 12, 2008
    Managing News Maps China Earthquake and Helps Identify Citizen Reporter
    After the earthquake hit yesterday, a big red dot appeared over China on the Managing News dashboard map that dwarfed all the other dots around the globe. Next to it in the tag cloud, I saw a few new terms in red that I knew were probably related...
  • Ian Cairns
    Apr 21, 2008
    Using Yahoo! Pipes to Track Breaking News Storie
    Robin Hamman from the BBC wrote on his personal Cybersoc.com blog today about some aggregation work he’s been doing with Yahoo! Pipes. We love what he’s up to. (HT: I got the tweet from Rheingold’s feed.) With the rise of so many...
  • Young Hahn
    Feb 29, 2008
    9 comments
    News Tastes Better When Mapped
    Using Fresh, Quality Ingredients to Geocode, Geotag, and Geoviews Your News
    We are currently working on a project for a disaster relief organization. Our client was interested in mapping aggregated disaster relief news over a map. This is something of a mini-project in itself, but a combination of awesome modules and some...
  • Jeff Miccolis
    Nov 29, 2007
    11 comments
    We Will Geocode Anything
    Putting News Stories on the Map
    We’ve long wanted our team aggregator and media analyzer Managing News to automatically geotag the news that it tracks. But getting this to happen presented some interesting questions and challenges. What does it mean to put a news story on map?...