crisis mapping

Where 2.0 and Crisis Mapping

In Uncategorized, crisis mapping, data import, examples, mapping, solutions, visualization on 29 March 2010 tagged with no comments

Our own Doug McCune, SpatialKey engineer extraordinaire, will be presenting a session about Crisis Mapping at Where 2.0 in San Jose this Thursday, April 1st. If you are attending the event, please come to Ballroom III at 4:50pm. Analyzing conflicts via maps is not new. For centuries generals and politicians have moved pushpins on maps to [...]

More data, yet we can see things better

In Computer Aided Dispatch, Law Enforcement, Sales & Marketing, crisis mapping, examples, mapping, solutions, visualization on 24 March 2010 with no comments

A colleague forwarded me the link to a great IBM ad that encapsulates what businesses are dealing with today as far as data. We don’t have that type of ad budget at SpatialKey, but if we did, our message would certainly be in line with IBM’s. The future is not less data, but more. And this [...]

The First International Crisis Mapping Conference – ACLED Demo

In crisis mapping, examples, mapping, solutions, visualization on 16 October 2009 with no comments

We’re excited to be at the first International Crisis Mapping Conference in Cleveland, OH for the weekend. While at ICCM2009, we’ll be discussing some of our work with ACLED (Armed Conflict Location and Events Dataset).  The ACLED project was founded by Dr. Clionadh Raleigh and team members from the PRIO Centre for the Study of [...]