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November 1, 2011

Tools – #SocialMedia and #Mobile Tools for Mass Gatherings

UPDATE 20111113
NASA GeoCam project – http://disastercam.blogspot.com/

Great tools for deciphering the torrent of #Twitter data -

http://gnip.com

http://www.geochirp.com/

http://trendsmap.com/

http://www.sat2twitter.com/

And a great UN effort to share pictures and their locations -

http://www.ansur.no/

& http://www.geo-pictures.eu/

Compelling TEDx talk by UK journalist Paul Lewis ( ) re: the citizen reporting and transparency paradigm shift which Twitter and allied social media tools have ushered-in -

…an equally focused and vivid 3 minute lightning talk by ESRI re: Social Media for Emergency Management #SMEM

And with great allusions to AirWolf and Yoda, a concise ‘state of the social mapping union’ TEDx Silicon Valley tour de force by one of the preeminent #SMEM and #CrisisMappers visionaries, Patrick Meier

Patrick Meier speaks at TEDx Silicon Valley 2011 from TEDx Silicon Valley on Vimeo.

Free ArcGIS.com resource for understanding the upcoming London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games – http://www.london2012.com


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Lastly, interesting beta Silverlight map tool to note Twitter geo patterns and timeline -

http://apps.arcgis.com/hosted/OnePane/twittertimeline/index.html

May 25, 2011

Non sequitur – NBA Finals and the Geography of Home-court Advantage

Timely piece by the Atlantic Monthly with #massgathering and #CIKR caveats -

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2011/05/the-fan-factor-in-the-nba-conference-finals/239251/

February 9, 2011

Video – Melinda Gates at TEDxChange@TEDxKibera – Why Maps Matter

Very compelling testimonial

http://www.gatesfoundation
.org/foundationnotes/Pages/erik-hersman-110203-interactive-mapping.aspx

http://mapkibera.org/

http://mapkibera.org/download/

November 4, 2010

Tools – Google Open Data Kit (ODK), OpenGeo and Simpler Systems for Gov 2.0

A powerful suite to enable OpenGov data, vizualization, GEOINT and mobile efforts…

http://code.google.com/p/opendatakit/

http://opengeo.org/

i.e. http://opengeo.org/publications/trimet/

http://www.simplersystems.com/home.html

i.e. http://www.simplergov.org/simplergov.html

October 30, 2010

Non Sequitur – Oregon d. USC and a Duck giving Swagger Lessons

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God bless Oregon…

October 27, 2010

Situational Awareness – HiRes San Diego Webcams for Coast & Mtns

Go to http://hpwren.ucsd.edu/cameras/

Background http://www.fox5sandiego.com/news/kswb-fire-cameras,0,7128240.story

October 18, 2010

History – America’s First Prof. Cartographer – Osgood Carleton via PBS

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Thank you Antique Roadshow…

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/fts/tucson_200601A28.html

Click Here for Video (Quicktime) Osgood Carleton on Antique Roadshow

April 19, 2010

Tools – NW China Earthquake – Qinghai

NW China quake resources

New imagery
http://www.google.com/relief/qinghaiearthquake/

Maps
http://www.zki.dlr.de/applications/2010/china/186_en.html

Maps, Data and POCs
http://www.un-spider.org/page/3455/spaceaid-available-space-based-resources-earthquake-nw-china

January 4, 2010

News – Keep on Truckin’ in Pakistan via CNN

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