Nordic Geospatial Blog http://nordicgeospatial.com/blog Sat, 12 May 2012 21:12:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 Video – UN Global Pulse and Big Data http://nordicgeospatial.com/blog/2012/05/12/un-global-pulse-big-data/ http://nordicgeospatial.com/blog/2012/05/12/un-global-pulse-big-data/#comments Sat, 12 May 2012 21:12:38 +0000 Administrator http://nordicgeospatial.com/blog/?p=1253 Great overview by Robert Kirkpatrick at PSFK

http://www.psfk.com/2012/05/un-global-pulse-talk-psfk-ny.html#ixzz1ugK7mAUC

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View Map of Domestic Drone Authorizations in a larger map

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http://www.metanomy.org/

& here’s a nimble, live map of global UAV news feeds …

http://news.metanomy.org/channel/2?display=views-mode-map

from Metanomy News Tracker

More news from Metanomy News Tracker.
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http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/business/july-dec11/makingsense_11-18.html

What does the work of Charles Darwin have to do with economics? As part of his reporting on Making Sen$e of financial news, Paul Solman talks to Robert H. Frank, author of “The Darwin Economy: Liberty, Competition, and the Common Good,” about the connection between economics and the father of evolution.

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http://villevivante.ch/

Great map…

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http://www.scribd.com/fullscreen/79898675

LaFree_Bersani_HotSpotsOfUSTerrorism

]]> http://nordicgeospatial.com/blog/2012/02/19/usterror-hotspots1970-2008/feed/ 0 Data – Google Public Alerts and CAP-EDXL http://nordicgeospatial.com/blog/2012/02/16/data-google-alerts-cap-edxl/ http://nordicgeospatial.com/blog/2012/02/16/data-google-alerts-cap-edxl/#comments Thu, 16 Feb 2012 17:41:11 +0000 Administrator http://nordicgeospatial.com/blog/?p=1210 Bravo Google Crisis Response and Non-Profit teams for creating the Google Public Alert platform -

http://www.google.org/publicalerts

http://googlefornonprofits.blogspot.com/2012/02/cross-posted-from-official-google.html

And for more information on the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP-EDXL) used in this application and most Emergency Alerts, feel free to review the Spring 2011 WMO CAP Workshop in Geneva, Switzerland -

http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/www/ISS/Meetings/WIS-CAP_Geneva2011/DocPlan.html

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https://syriatracker.crowdmap.com/

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http://www.friendsofhearstcastle.org/special_events.asp

For more info, go to -

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Friends-of-Hearst-Castle/247995260112

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