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Digital volunteers are racing to map regions in West Africa where the Ebola virus, which has a 90 percent fatality rate, continues to spread 
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Definitely a trend occuring in Europe, be interesting to see how it takes root elsewhere. Public administrations that grasp the benefits of making publicly available their data will also increase their use of free and open source, experts on open data agree. Open data and open source face comparable threats: initial lack of support and a fear for the impact on the organisation. Click on title to learn more.
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Palantir's data platform, Gotham, enables data integration, search and discovery, knowledge management, secure collaboration, and algorithmic analysis across a wide variety of data sources.
Phillip Trotter's insight:
Palantir teamed with the OpenGeo to extend PostGIS to support WGS84 coordinate system and geodetic coordinates. This enabled Palantir to migrate from Oracle spatial to PostGIS as the underpinning spatial database for their Gotham platform. The benefits to the wider spatial community are signficiant since WGS84 based mapping is often a requirement in government and geoscience applications. Palantir's sponsored open source development undertaken by OpenGeo enables other to take advantage of the new features and integrate PostGIS into workflows. Click on the image or title to learn more.
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The use of OpenStreetMap (OSM) as an unifying geodata system is increasing in humanitarian aid. The current Ebola outbreak in West Africa is a challenge at multiple levels for teams trying to coordinate a response. Due to years of war there are few up to date maps in the region and multiple boundaries mean different groups are collecting data. Digital volunteers creating new OSM entries will be a key asset in enabling health officials to manage the outbreak and hopefully bring things under control.