Posts tagged with "data"

May 22, 2012

Google is using a data set provided by the Cicero API

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The Google Politics, Elections, and Public Sector Team are now using the Cicero API's newly redistricted Congressional districts boundary set. This information provides a national map of con… continue reading
May 3, 2012

Azavea Announces the Release of GeoTrellis, an Open Source High Performance Geographic Data Processing Engine and Programming Toolkit

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GeoTrellis enables analysis applications that have previously only been possible with a workstation GIS to be made available online and in mobile applications. Philadelphia, PA, May 3, 2012 – A… continue reading
April 13, 2012

Technically Philly talks OpenDataPhilly.org One Year Later

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Christopher Wink of Technically Philly talks about OpenDataPhilly.org, the civic-orientated directory of information, that was launched last year during Philly Tech Week. Azavea built the site an… continue reading
March 29, 2012

Open San Diego uses Azavea's OpenDataPhilly source code

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Yael Borofsky of Technically Philly touches on the open data catalog in San Diego that was implemented by using the OpenDataPhilly source code from Azavea. The new San Diego catalog simply direct… continue reading
March 5, 2012

Azavea Announces Fellowship Program for Nonprofits and GIS students

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Azavea Announces Summer of Maps, a Summer Fellowship Program that Offers Stipends to GIS Students to Perform Free Spatial Analysis for Non-Profits  Philadelphia, PA, March 5, 2012 – A… continue reading
December 21, 2011

OpenDataPhilly and DistrictBuilder among the winners for the 2011 GovFresh Awards!

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The 2011 GovFresh Award winners were announced yesterday. OpenDataPhilly won awards for Best Government/Citizen Collaboration and Best Open Data Platform. OpenDataPhilly, which was built by Azavea, is… continue reading
December 16, 2011

Azavea Receives Honorable Mention from the Philadelphia City Paper

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Azavea was given Honorable Mention in the Philadelphia City Paper for our civic-minded technology this year. Daniel Denvir mentions the launch of our open-data portal and the redistrict… continue reading
November 18, 2011

Open Chattanooga uses OpenDataPhilly source code from Azavea

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Christopher Wink of Technically Philly reports on how the new OpenChattanooga site reused the source code supported by OpenDataPhilly, the open source framework built by Azavea. Read th… continue reading
November 17, 2011

Post-Redistricting District Boundaries Now Available Via Political Data API

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API Service Provides Post-redistricting Legislative District Boundaries to Accurately Match Addresses to the Latest Boundary Data  Cicero API enables the geocoding and matching of addresses to l… continue reading
October 28, 2011

Reported bike thefts, vacant land and college attendance records win OpenDataRace

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Technically Philly profiles the three data sets that have been announced as winning the most support in the OpenDataRace, a month-long call for Philadelphians to vote for what nominated city informati… continue reading