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“Natural Cities” Emerge from Social Media Location Data

February 6, 2014 - in Smart Cities

A city is a large, permanent human settlement. But try and define it more carefully and you’ll soon run into trouble. A settlement that qualifies as a city in Sweden may not qualify in China, for example. And the reasons why one settlement is classified…

Hurricane Sandy’s Impact Measured by Millions of Flickr Pictures

November 5, 2013 - in Analysis, Emergency, Projects

A new study has discovered a striking connection between the number of pictures of Hurricane Sandy posted on Flickr and the atmospheric pressure in New…

GCS Webinar to Demonstrate Social Mood Mapping with Location Analytics

October 17, 2013 - in Uncategorized

On October 24, GCS will introduce ‘Social Doppler,’ a new method of applying advanced location analytics to real-time social media data to measure,…

Gavin Newsom's New Book Highlights Open Government Data and the Cloud

February 11, 2013 - in Projects, Renewal/Retrofit

California's digital lieutenant governor Gavin Newsom has just released a new book called "Citizenville" where he extolls the benefits of greater collaboration with citizens through open data and cloud computing. The book embraces the empowerment of citizens…

Min Stad (My City) Gothenburg Provides a 3D Virtual City for Citizen's Debate

May 29, 2012 - in Modeling, Projects, Smart Cities

The City of Gothenburg and the City Planning Office is developing a new arena for the citizens of Gothenburg for communication and debate concerning city development; Min Stad (My City). The web portal contains a photorealistic 3D city model where users can…