Category Archives: In the News

Dangerous Cartography

Posted on January 8, 2011 by John Reiser

Back in March of 2010, Sarah Palin’s PAC released a map of “democratic targets” she would like to see out of office. The map, depicted at right, used gunsights to highlight where the representatives she wants gone are located. Sadly, … Continue reading →

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High Expectations for Barnes & Nobles in Glassboro

Posted on December 3, 2010 by John Reiser

The undersized collection of books means that Geography and Planning books have a very small, blink-and-miss-it section of shelf in the general circulation. Continue reading →

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The “Danger” of Creative Commons

Posted on August 30, 2010 by John Reiser

Am I upset that an anti-rail group used my picture for their own use? Not really. The Internet is founded on sharing information. Continue reading →

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Changing Landscapes: A Great Release

Posted on August 4, 2010 by John Reiser

Release date was finally here. I woke up in a panic just before 6am because I fell asleep before John sent me the PDF of the report to be posted to the website. I posted the report, double checked to … Continue reading →

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Changing Landscapes: A Million Little Tiles

Posted on August 3, 2010 by John Reiser

The New Jersey Land Change Viewer, the online component of the Changing Landscapes research project required the generation of approximately one million map tiles. These tiles needed to be served quickly – the online viewer is meant to make the … Continue reading →

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Changing Landscapes: Brainstorming

Posted on August 2, 2010 by John Reiser

Back in June, the New Jersey DEP Bureau of GIS released the 2007 Land Use/Land Cover data. The data was released in record time, just slightly over 3 years from the aerial photography date. We felt that we needed to … Continue reading →

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ArcGIS Editor for OpenStreetMap

Posted on July 7, 2010 by John Reiser

ESRI has just released an add-in for ArcGIS 10 allowing ArcGIS users to download data from and contribute to OpenStreetMap. Marten Hogeweg announced the tool and news spread pretty quickly. While I agree with the favorable reception the tool has … Continue reading →

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Equality in Data: Should personal addresses be redacted?

Posted on February 19, 2010 by John Reiser

Just because you have a hammer doesn’t mean you’re going to start hitting people with it. Intentionally crippling a web service and reducing accessibility should always be seen as a major step backwards. Continue reading →

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Please Rob Me: What’s the big deal?

Posted on February 18, 2010 by John Reiser

There’s been a flurry of posts across the web about Please Rob Me, a site that aggregates check-ins on sites like FourSquare, illustrating the fact that we’ve known all along: people are willing to release more information than they realize. … Continue reading →

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UK magazine on why OpenStreetMap is brilliant

Posted on July 29, 2009 by John Reiser

Just two days after I wrote about OpenStreetMap, PC Pro, a UK computing magazine, posted a blog about the brilliance of OpenStreetMap.  This entry is a much better introduction to OSM than what I previously wrote.

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