GeoCommons delivers visual analytics through maps: enabling non-technical professionals to view multiple databases, draw conclusions, make decisions and solve problems without traditional GIS overhead.

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DIYcity was created in October 2008 by John Geraci. The site explores the idea that open, participatory web technologies, applied to city living patterns, infrastructure and services, can radically transform cities as we know them, making them more efficient, more livable and more sustainable.

People all over the world are invited to exchange ideas on how they can reinvent their local areas, offering examples of applications, open source code, and anything else that will help develop a collective approach to building these new DIY cities.

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Social Networking Conference is the largest event that covers the internet community industry, including a focus on mobile technologies, and business/enterprise social media. The next event is at the Mission Bay Conference Center at UCSF in San Francisco, USA and is scheduled for July 10 – 11, 2008. The Social Networking Conference 2008 San Francisco event will have in its attendance the most prominent executives from the internet community industry. Topics covered include: mobile and other new technologies, business social networking, enterprise social networking, traditional & internet marketing, venture capital, partnerships, legal issues and payments.

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With the advent of free mapping tools like Google Maps, we have seen more and more developers add location-aware functionality and content into their web and mobile applications. This, along with the growth of location providing technologies such as GPS, Wi-Fi triangulation and IP Geolocation make the browser an ideal broker for the users location information.

The goal of the Location Aware Working Group is to work closely with browser vendors, device makers, Web-application developers, content providers, and other interested parties to make location-aware browsing a reality. By standardizing the way in which browsers determine a user’s geolocation and the way in which Web applications obtain that information — while still ensuring protection of user control over privacy — we hope to increase the overall adoption and growth of location-based services on the Web as a whole.

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Recently, Mike Liebhold wrote an essay that many regarded as a kind of manifesto for the location-based service (LBS) community. In that prescient article, he describes what is needed to create a Geospatial Web, and what is necessary to sustain the promise of LBS as open and accessible, and a truly useful extension of what the World Wide Web currently offers.

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The 2008 Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) conference, incorporating GISSA 2008, gathers developers and users of open source geospatial software as well as managers and decision makers from around the world to discuss new directions, exciting implementations, and growing business opportunities in the field of open source geospatial software. FOSS4G is presented annually by the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo).

Focussed on the practical “make it work, get it done” world of open source application development, this annual conference boasts a very high concentration of geospatial technical opinion leaders. Attendance at this event has grown at over 50% a year since its inception in 2003, paralleling the rapid growth and adoption curve of open source geospatial tools in the marketplace.

The conference takes place yearly at different parts of the world.Read more about it here.

The map is a device of multiple powers. What happens when this device is purposely redirected by artists? Currently there is tremendous momentum amongst the fields of art, activism, geography and cultural studies. For example, associating the fields of cartography and art can lead to new forms of tourism, overwrite official boundaries with local ecologies, expose governmental secrets and generate new ways of experiencing and understanding our physical environment.

You Are Here is a two-day conference featuring contemporary artists and researchers working with mapping and tactical media.

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Maps help us make sense of our world. A sampling of the Library of Congress Geography and Map Division’s 4.5 million treasures has been digitized and is available in Map Collections: 1500 – 2003. This activity introduces historical maps from the American Memory collections. A graphic organizer, for analysis and note taking, and a set of guiding questions for each type of map have been provided.

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This literary map of America is being filled in by students all over the country.

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Meraki is bringing free wireless Internet to San Francisco!

Over 40,000 people have used Free the Net to connect to the Internet already and we’re not slowing down until our wireless network covers all of San Francisco!

We’re sending thousands of free Meraki repeaters to city residents. Each of these little boxes spreads the network and strengthens the signal, bringing free Internet access to you and your neighbors.

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