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Before and After – Calgary and Ft. McMurray
The other day Google Earth released updated historical imagery, so I thought it’d be neat to take a peek at two spots I know have grown a lot since 1985, the date of the earliest imagery. I also wanted a quick and dirty way to make a before/after image slider, as shown on the above
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Alberta Open Data Developments
Yesterday was a pretty good day for Open Data in Alberta. First, the City of Calgary went live with a Socrata version of their Open Data portal. Previously they had been running on some sort of Microsoft SharePoint (my guess) site, and it was not a particularly pretty or useful thing. Really looking forward to
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Mita makes the case: Why Libraries Should Maintain the Open Data of Their Communities
Mita Williams has an excellent blog post titled Why Libraries Should Maintain the Open Data of Their Communities. It's a long (for a blog post), but important read, and includes an excellent history of how Canadian government data has evolved, and how it compares (poorly) to US government data . I've been making the same
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Mapping Western Economic Diversification Grants
A few weeks ago two new data sets appeared on the Open Data Canada website, WD – Grants and Contributions over $25,000 and Project Geo-Information, which "provides geographical information on projects issued by or on behalf of Western Economic Diversification Canada." Not particularly well-named data sets, but that's another issue. I thought it would be a