geomantic

On the eve of Thanksgiving, the folks at FortiusOne speculate whether Americans will be driving fewer miles on this most heavily traveled of holidays.
Fuzzy Tolerance released Geospatial Portal v2.0, with RESTful services for query and spatial analysis. It’s a good example of (local) government use of open source geospatial software. It’s released under the GNU [...]

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With the frenzy of the elections past, I’m gradually returning to normal life. Here are some things that have recently caught my attention.
Fuzzy Tolerance calls attention to a slew of recent open source software releases. Shiny new toys!
From the Google Geo Developers Blog comes word of a snazzy new KML Manual. (Must add this to [...]

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To put the magnitude of Obama’s victory in perspective, here are links to two interesting maps of election results. Both of these resources provide a much better explanation of the outcome than do the state-level maps, which look pretty evenly divided. The county-level maps are overwhelmingly red, but when adjusted for population the margin of [...]

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