This is the second part of a two part post looking at the building blocks of data infrastructure. You should read part one first and then jump back in here. The sensors and components that are used to build the weather stations are also technologies.

UTAH AGRC Automated Geographic Reference Center. Aerial Imagery and Base Maps. News, Events, and Coordination. News, Events, and Coordination.

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Observed location accuracy in iOS. I learned about the project Queering the Map. Simple project to let people share their LGBT experiences on a map. I like the anonymous confessional aspect of it, also the visibility and power of LGBT people sharing our experiences. Not sure the heatmap setup is quite right, but I got tired of tinkering with gradients. This blog post is so self-deprecating! .

Oh god no no no. Kirk vs Gorn with Foley. 06 05 04 03 02 01. Blog licensed under a Creative Commons License. Absolutely loved it, would like to go back, enthusiastically recommended it. I documented most of the trip on Twitter. I collected all the tweets in a Storify page.

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Building the capacity of open data. Before we even had a website, we had a GitHub repository. Software essential to the open data ecosystem.

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Der geoObserver verabschiedet sich in die Sommerpause, damit wird die Zahl der Beiträge sicher recht klein. Zu folgen, dort kommt täglich was von mir.