Event Details

Geographic Information System (GIS) is all over the web. From the standard Google Map link appearing when you search a business location to more complex maps such as this Bejing Olympic Air Quality one, location information is creating a geographically aware web, or GeoWeb.

Is your nonprofit using maps to geographically show off your work?  Have you thought of the dozens of ways you could use the GeoWeb to make your work more visible?  If you have used or are considering using GIS in your nonprofit's work, you probably have a question or two.

Well, Andrew Turner, a neogeographer involved in helping to build the geospatial web, will be here to answer YOUR GIS questions for our November Ask the Expert session. 

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Andrew co-founded Mapufacture, the industry leading geospatial aggregator that recently joined FortiusOne, the developers of GeoCommons. GeoCommons is a platform and collection of web applications that makes it easy for people to share and build collaborative maps from geodata. He also develops a number of other open-source tools such as GeoPress and Mapstraction, works with the OpenStreetMap project in the US and Africa, and wrote the book, Introduction to Neogeography, for O'Reilly. You can learn more about Andrew on his blog, High Earth Orbit.

How's It Work?

This will be an online chat event where you will listen on the phone and simultaneously sign into a live chat. This event is only available to NTEN members, so if you aren't - become a member today!

Event Materials

Below you'll find a transcript of the chat portion.

Thank you to Andrew and to all who participated!

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Annaliese(NTEN): Welcome to Ask-The-Expert with Andrew Turner!

Annaliese(NTEN): you will be asking your questions in this chat window

Annaliese(NTEN): Neogeographer

Annaliese(NTEN): http://geocommons.com/

Annaliese(NTEN): http://mapufacture.com/

Annaliese(NTEN): http://www.georss.org/geopress

Annaliese(NTEN): http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/neogeography/

Annaliese(NTEN): http://twittervotereport.com

Annaliese(NTEN): NTEN members - feel free to queue questions here in this chat

paulhyland: First link should be: http://www.geocommons.com/

Annaliese(NTEN): thanks @paulhyland (I copied that one)

Madhu: on a practical note, how do you represent actual points on a background of demographic information?

David Dombrosky: For people who are new to GIS and thinking through how they might use GIS in their organizations, do you have a "starter" resource that you recommend?

Andrew Turner: http://osgeo.org

Matt: How much custom programming and 'gluecode' was required for twittervotereport? How replicable is it?

Andrew Turner: http://maker.geocommons.com

Annaliese(NTEN): http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596529956/

Annaliese(NTEN): http://drupal.org/

Annaliese(NTEN): http://www.rubyonrails.org/

Andrew Turner: http://drupal.org/project/mappingkit

Annaliese(NTEN): http://www.developmentseed.org/

Madhu: so whats the easiest way to get latitude and longitude info?

Annaliese(NTEN): I just found this: http://tinygeocoder.com/

Annaliese(NTEN): http://www.batchgeocode.com/

Annaliese(NTEN): Bring the tools close as you can to the content creation!

Madhu: what was the name of the database that he spoke about, that can be used online .. i didnt get the name.

Bruce: http://www.geonames.org/

Annaliese(NTEN): http://www.openstreetmap.org/

emotive_llc: can you discuss the differences between being able to draw a path on a map (road, trail) and being able to put points along that path? approaches to each?

Annaliese(NTEN): thanks, @Bruce

Annaliese(NTEN): http://www.editgrid.com/

Annaliese(NTEN): crowdsource, community engagement

Annaliese(NTEN): http://www.hurricanewiki.org/

Andrew Turner: and http://hurricanes08.org

Annaliese(NTEN): http://www.appsfordemocracy.org/

Annaliese(NTEN): that Princeton report: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id…

Annaliese(NTEN): http://gears.google.com/

Annaliese(NTEN): http://fireeagle.yahoo.net/

Andrew Turner: http://api.worldbank.org

12:51 Andrew Turner: http://slideshare.net/ajturner

Annaliese(NTEN): http://www.kiva.org/

Anna: http://highearthorbit.com/

Annaliese(NTEN): Thank you!

Madhu: thank you

Anna: Thanks to all!

paulhyland: any chance of this transcript being distributed?

Anna: Yes - I will send out the transcript later today