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“If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else.” Yogi Berra

The Geo.me blog has launced. This inaugral post is to welcome our community and ask you to stay tuned for what we hope will become a lively and engaging community. We intend to showcase our geoCMS and data management capability, delve into more detail on specific modules and really lift the lid on where we believe “geo” should be going. We hope our clients, customers, geo-enthusiasts will be able to share ideas and identify ways in which geo-visualisation and real-time data analysis can support businesses, and really aid the decision process.

As we write the world is going through some tough times – we see this as a time in which innovation and efficiency will thrive. Our goal is to focus on the challenges facing consumers and business right now; this may be cost, decision support, data analysis or something less obvious. Geographic visuals and data intelligence are powerful tools and through this blog we will show you how to make the most of our exciting technology.

Jim Strong & Stuart Grant

London Cycle Hire Map - now with live data

We wrote last week about the launch of Barclays Cycle Hire, London’s first public bike rental scheme, and produced a map using data published by the London Datastore, along with some ideas on usability compared with the official map of the docking stations.

The achillesĀ heel of this effort, of course, was the lack of real time [...]

London Cycle Hire Map

Today saw the launch of Barclays Cycle Hire, London’s first public bike rental scheme. In keeping with the new spirit of open data, the locations of the docking stations (rental points) have been published via the London Datastore, along with a challenge for innovative uses.

The most obvious application of this data is to drive smartphone [...]

Steven Feldman Joins Geo.me Solutions as Chairman

We are pleased to announce that Steven Feldman has joined geo.me as both an investor and chairman of the board of directors.

Geo.me create rich and interactive mapping applications that visualise, chart and analyse information to support communication with citizens, clients and add insight across organisations. Geo.me are a cloud based web service [...]

2010 Election Tweet Map

Election Tweet MapOur election map merges both our Open Data and Twitter modules. While this map may look like a mashup tweets and an image overlay a lot more is going on behind the scenes:

a) Twitter: Only tweets that are properly geocoded are being [...]