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Environmental Sensors

Willie Shubert — Tue, 28 Jul 2015 17:46:42 +0000

For many journalists, especially those working in developing countries, coverage of sensitive environmental issues is severely constrained by a lack of accessible information and data

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.csv

Vitor George — Mon, 13 Oct 2014 22:02:02 +0000

A comma-separated values (CSV) (also sometimes called character-separated values, because the separator character does not have to be a comma) file stores tabular data (numbers and text) in plain-text form.Plain text means that the file is a sequence of characters, with no data that has to be interpreted as binary numbers. A CSV file consists […]

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.kml

Vitor George — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 20:15:58 +0000

Keyhole Markup Language (KML) is an XML notation for expressing geographic annotation and visualization within Internet-based, two-dimensional maps and three-dimensional Earth browsers. KML was developed for use with Google Earth, which was originally named Keyhole Earth Viewer. It was created by Keyhole, Inc, which was acquired by Google in 2004. KML became an international standard […]

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.shp (Shapefiles)

Vitor George — Mon, 13 Oct 2014 22:02:20 +0000

The shapefile format is a popular geospatial vector data format for geographic information system (GIS) software. It is developed and regulated by Esri as a (mostly) open specification for data interoperability among Esri and other GIS software products.[1] The shapefile format can spatially describe vector features: points, lines, and polygons, representing, for example, water wells, […]

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Adobe Illustrator

Vitor George — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 18:42:39 +0000

Adobe Illustrador “is an editor of vector images” that helps to create advance design for graphics. Most of the newsrooms work with this software and it is mostly used on static data visualizations. The software is proprietary. According to Wikipedia, it was originally created by Apple Macintosh then acquired by Adobe. The latest version, Illustrator CC, […]

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Aerial Imagery

Vitor George — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 19:06:19 +0000

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Africa

Gustavo Faleiros — Tue, 03 Feb 2015 19:36:24 +0000

The African track puts together dataset reviews of regional open repositories and features geojournalism iniciatives in the continent. It also brings tutorials prepared by local journalists and developers in partnership with Code for Africa

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Balloon Mapping

Vitor George — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 19:05:24 +0000

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Carto.com

Gustavo Faleiros — Mon, 15 Aug 2016 20:57:31 +0000

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CartoCSS

Vitor George — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 18:57:06 +0000

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