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What’s up with Google’s data licensing policies?

Posted on April 11, 2011 by rajsingh

Wow. Mikel is mad as hell and he isn’t going to take it anymore, saying, “We Need to Stop Google’s Exploitation of Open Communities“. An important perspective from someone who has been at ground zero of open (geo)data efforts for … Continue reading →

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Fighting the metadata battle

Posted on April 4, 2011 by rajsingh

Lots of people in the circles in which I travel talk about how great the web could be with more metadata, tags, structure, and links. How so many more mashups and cool apps could be built if people took a … Continue reading →

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Picasa Web Albums uses GeoRSS GML

Posted on January 27, 2010 by rajsingh

Who says Google doesn’t care about standards? When playing around with the RSS feed from Picasa Web Albums, I was pleasantly surprised to see full-blown GeoRSS GML for the geo-located items. In fact, they are recording both an Envelope and … Continue reading →

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Sketchup 7.1 supports KMZ!

Posted on September 24, 2009 by rajsingh

Love to see companies embrace better data sharing: One of the things we’re pretty concerned about around here is something called data liberation. Too often, your stuff’s locked inside proprietary file formats that force you to use whatever tool you … Continue reading →

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The Sum of my Nonsecrets is not that interesting

Posted on August 4, 2009 by rajsingh

There’s a big societal worry, in general, about the safety and privacy of personal information in the Internet age. In some cases, like banking and medical records, that worry is well-founded. But for the most part, people should just act … Continue reading →

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