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Maryland Council on Open Data

Posted on 2014-08-26

Back in May, I had the honor of being appointed to the newly established Maryland Council on Open Data. The Council had its inaugural meeting in Baltimore yesterday and was heavily attended, including attendance by Governor Martin O’Malley. I’ll discuss his remarks to the group later. As the first meeting of a new group, it…

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CFPB Fellowship Seeking 2015 Candidates

Posted on 2014-07-07

It’s no secret that I am contractor who spends a lot of my time attempting to develop software for defense users. I’ve been doing this for a long time, though I have added other customers to my portfolio over the years. The process of development in this arena gets more frustrating by the day. Recently,…

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SpatiaLite for Android Available

Posted on 2012-11-26

On what seems to be turning into SpatiaLite Monday, Sandro Furieri also announced on the SpatiaLite Google Group the availability of a stable version of SpatiaLite for Android. I am happy to see that this version was developed and contributed back by the US Army Geospatial Center. The fact that they contributed back to the…

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Wilson Center to Discuss FCC National Broadband Map

Posted on 2012-10-09

One of the most compelling recent success stories for open-source geospatial tools in the Federal Government has been the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) National Broadband Map initiative. It has been a very visible example of the stability, scalability, flexibility, and power of open-source geospatial tools. The Woodrow Wilson Center will be hosting a case study…

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FCC Open-Sources MapBox Module for Drupal

Posted on 2012-03-20

See the FCC announcement here. MapBox has been winning a lot of high-profile converts lately, such as Foursquare. In my opinion, it’s one of the more perfect web mapping solutions, commercial or open-source, to come along in a while. The combination of cartographic engine (Mapnik), tile generation (TileMill) and storage (MBTiles) make MapBox one of…

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FCC Broadband Map Featured by CBS

Posted on 2011-10-28

Michael Byrne of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) gave a really good talk at FOSS4G, telling the story of the FCC National Broadband Map application, which is built on open-source geospatial tools. In addition to being open-source, it’s a modern web system that makes diligent use of caching and other techniques to achieve great performance….

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Open Government, Open Data and Some Lessons from Arkansas

Posted on 2011-06-29

I was reading Brian Timoney’s excellent post “Open Government is a Slammed Door at the BLM,” when I encountered this line: Top-down, large scale spatial-data-integration-by-directive simply doesn’t have the track record of success to justify the costs… This resonates well with observations that I have made during the course of my recent work with the…

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