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A Pitch for Public Geodata

Schuyler’s Lightning Talk on public access to geodata given at the FOSS4G conference in Cape Town. For your viewing pleasure. And here is a summary of the events.

Running OxCal on an Xgrid

OxCal is a freeware program, developed by the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit (ORAU), University of Oxford. It applies a Bayesian approach for the analysis of archaeological and environmental chronological information. Binaries are distributed for the current version (v.4) for Mac and Win platforms.

The application consists of three main modules. The project manager and output [...]

AfricaMap

The AfricaMap project out of the Center for Geographic Analysis at Harvard aims to address an increasingly relevant problem of social science and humanities spatial research: how to build an infrastructure to manage the spatial data. 

From the website:

Despite the existence of excellent public maps for Africa, to date there is no common [...]