Open-Source Geography » Arlington http://opensourcegeography.org Thu, 17 Sep 2009 06:18:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Arlington’s Smart Growth Journey http://opensourcegeography.org/2009/08/04/arlingtons-smart-growth-journey/ http://opensourcegeography.org/2009/08/04/arlingtons-smart-growth-journey/#comments Wed, 05 Aug 2009 03:27:07 +0000 Kevin http://opensourcegeography.org/?p=181 “Arlington’s Smart Growth Journey” is a new documentary film that traces the dramatic history of the past half-century of growth and development in our community.  This tale of political wheeling and dealing, visionary planning, missteps and challenges is a glimpse into the recent history of Arlington, as told by many who were there.

Watch video (52 min.) With closed caption option
Credit:  Arlington Video Network (AVN)

]]> http://opensourcegeography.org/2009/08/04/arlingtons-smart-growth-journey/feed/ 0 Obama Has A Crowd of Map-Makers http://opensourcegeography.org/2008/07/15/barack-obama-ron-paul-or-john-mccain-guess-which-presidential-candidate-has-gathered-a-team-of-map-makers/ http://opensourcegeography.org/2008/07/15/barack-obama-ron-paul-or-john-mccain-guess-which-presidential-candidate-has-gathered-a-team-of-map-makers/#comments Wed, 16 Jul 2008 02:55:49 +0000 Kevin M http://www.30secondwords.com/?p=57 I wondered when a major party presidential candidate would assemble a Geographic Information Sciences Team. It was confirmed when the Campaign put out a call for volunteers over at the GIS Jobs Clearinghouse. I signed up to help and heard the electrical thumps of the team getting slammed with volunteer cartographers and other GIS folk clamoring to help the put their candidate’s train in motion.

To the candidate, I would like to say that it is fantastic that the GIS Team you assembled are applying the technology in some very interesting ways. I wonder if the other campaigns are running their GIS teams as effectively. I offer the floor to the techno-critics over at the Low Tech Times for their position on the role of technology in presidential campaigns.

Give up? Barack Obama is taking a crowdsourced, collaborative approach to his GIS Operations. Will Obama be the first Open-Source President? As an academic advisor, I would suggest to any student working on the campaign to treat this like a laboratory of ideas worthy of doctoral dissertations. But remember, there will also be a lot of boring old production cartography. Either way, the Obama Campaign has embraced an important technology and an interesting method of crowdsourcing.

Also, the Low-Tech Times has asked that you not use the GIS as a  campaign SPAM-building effort.

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