Today we presented at MICTTing in Punta del Este, Uruguay, talking about how open data and open source can be leveraged for sustainable tourism programs.
Eric Gundersen from Development Seed joined us on the panel and presented on the open source mapping platform TileMill and Javier presented on Open Data, environment and CartoDB. The balance was great. There is a few companies out there that share the same vision as we do, and Development Seed is one of them. They are the authors of some really cool projects and pretty amazing technology. They also are an open source company and we have been following some of their creations code for a while in CartoDB. This exemplifies to its best, the great outcomes that can happen between small companies supporting open source and innovation.
Our collaboration extends well beyond the stage. Additionally, Development Seed and Vizzuality are talking a lot about future joint workshops, sharing projects, ideas and in general closer relations between the companies as we both work to push open source in the development and environmental space. We can not be more happy to be so close to such a talented company and we are sure we will all have lot of fun in the future.
This week we helped launch a new project on Zooniverse Labs, called NEEMO. For 13 days NASA astronauts, scientists and technicians on a mission called NEEMO-15, where they will be living in an underwater habitat called Aquarius to research marine life and prepare explorers for missions to far-off planetary destinations. During these missions, NASA collects thousands of images of underwater life and features. They need your help to analyze those images and help us guide the scientists on their excursions around the habitat!
NEEMO is a collaborative, spatial annotation, application built using Node.js. It allows users to race one another to identify and annotate seafloor biodiversity quickly and accurately. NEEMO is all about seeing how we can quickly build accurate sets of spatial annotations using crowd sourcing. The race is on! Using socket.io, NEEMO allows users to see and validate each other’s findings in real-time and all of the annotations are being stored, tracked, and served using CartoDB.
After only the first few days of collecting data, we have thousands of identifications and thousands more validations. We are really excited about it, keep the annotations coming NEEMOers!
“A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a place (such as a forest, mountain, lake, desert, monument, building, complex, or city) that is listed by the UNESCO as of special cultural or physical significance.” Wikipedia.
Today we are launching UNESCOplaces.org, an unofficial redesign proposal of the UNESCO site using our new product CartoSet.
CartoSet is an Open Source Framework to publish and curate a geospatial dataset in simple and beautiful ways. Internally, CartoSet makes use of our upcoming Open Source Geospatial Database on the Cloud, CartoDB.
We are still cleaning code and making it easier for deployment and we will release all the source code at FOSS4G in Denver next week. If you want to learn more about CartoSet and CartoDB join us at the following presentations:
So today’s launch of UNESCOplaces.org is the first of many upcoming beautiful geospatial sites. We already have a number of people committed and developing their own sites, and starting next week everyone will be able to join the community.
We hope you like it and we look forward to meeting you at FOSS4G.
One mor year FOSS4G is here. The most important conference on Geospatial Open Source software will take place this year at Denver, and we will be there. Actually big part of Vizzuality will be there: @saleiva @tokumin @xavijam and @jatorre
This is a very important year for us. We will be presenting lots of new developments that we have been working for a long time and that we will be releasing. More specifically expect to hear from us about CartoDB and CartoSet quite a lot.
We are presenting also quite a bit, look for these sessions to learn about our projects and Open Source Products.
We are very excited to participate and attend the great presentations we see in the program.
Finally we will be staying in a nice penthouse downtown with the good people from UNEP-WCMC. We will probably be hacking one day during the week on CartoSet and CartoDB for environmental datasets. If you feel like joining us let us know!
Looking forward to meet everybody!
