This Weeks Hangout with Alyssa Wright of OpenGeo
This week I’ve got a great guest, Alyssa Wright of OpenGeo. Alyssa just gave a presentation at FedGeo about the new OpenGeo Enterprise Console which I’ve embedded below. We also will talk about what open means to OpenGeo (compare and contrast with Andrew Turner’s hangout) as well as why given that there are so many women in GIS, this is only the 3rd woman I’ve had on my hangout.
As always we go live Wednesday, March 6th at 11am MST. You can either tag tweets with the hashtag #hwjf or join the chat live.
This Weeks Hangout with Alyssa Wright of OpenGeo
This week I’ve got a great guest, Alyssa Wright of OpenGeo. Alyssa just gave a presentation at FedGeo about the new OpenGeo Enterprise Console which I’ve embedded below. We also will talk about what open means to OpenGeo (compare and contrast with Andrew Turner’s hangout) as well as why given that there are so many women in GIS, this is only the 3rd woman I’ve had on my hangout.
As always we go live Wednesday, March 6th at 11am MST. You can either tag tweets with the hashtag #hwjf or join the chat live.
Get Interactive Data Visualization for the Web eBook for about $10
Update: If you don’t see the discount automatically, use discount code WKEARSE
So as long as you’ve had access to the Internet the past couple months you’ve heard of D3 and how people are using it for visualization in the browser. Well, if you’ve been watching from the outside wondering how to get started, you might have seen there is a book called, “Interactive Data Visualization for the Web, An Introduction to Designing with D3”. It’s in early release right now but that’s going to be a huge win for you if you haven’t bough it yet because O’Reilly has all their early release books half off this week. That means the eBook can be yours for about $10.
D3 is changing how we are sharing geospatial information in the browser, you should get this book if just to understand how it is being used.
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Emulating MapBox
Did you see this new Esri ArcGIS for Developers website go up? My initial comment: https://twitter.com/jamesmfee/status/306554072104853504 Yea, HTML5 is teh awesome, right? But you can’t but help to notice that it looks like someone else in the industry. Noted others:
Thank god MapBox patented cartoon maps in circles http://t.co/HGg7fqQyqs
— Tom MacWright (@tmcw) February 27, 2013
https://twitter.com/springmeyer/status/306817393131417600 I’d like to think there wasn’t malicious intent here, just that those who created it want to be like MapBox and Developement Seed. Still, when the 800lb (363kg) gorilla does things like this, you can’t but help call it a dick move. 
Not Cool
Emulating MapBox
Did you see this new Esri ArcGIS for Developers website go up? My initial comment: https://twitter.com/jamesmfee/status/306554072104853504 Yea, HTML5 is teh awesome, right? But you can’t but help to notice that it looks like someone else in the industry. Noted others:
Thank god MapBox patented cartoon maps in circles http://t.co/HGg7fqQyqs
— Tom MacWright (@tmcw) February 27, 2013
https://twitter.com/springmeyer/status/306817393131417600 I’d like to think there wasn’t malicious intent here, just that those who created it want to be like MapBox and Developement Seed. Still, when the 800lb (363kg) gorilla does things like this, you can’t but help call it a dick move. 
Not Cool
This Week’s Hangout with Brian Timoney
Don’t forget, Wednesday at 11am MST, Brian Timoney joins to talk about “map portals”, data sharing (homework) and whatever else we come up with. Brian’s a smart guy and always great to listen to. Check out his FOSS4G Keynote talk:
FOSS4G 2011 Brian Timoney from Peter Batty on Vimeo.
FOSS4G 2011 Brian Timoney from Peter Batty on Vimeo.
You can either tag tweets with the hashtag #hwjf or join the chat live.