GeoCommons Testing – Early Adopters Wanted
January 2nd, 2007by Sean Gorman
About the Author: Sean Gorman founded FortiusOne in 2005 to bring location based analytics to the mass market. Sean brings over 10 years of experience at the forefront of the geospatial revolution as a researcher, practitioner, and entrepreneur at FortiusOne. Through both academic and entreprenurial efforts he has been working to make geographic data more accessible to the public since 1997 culminating in the creation of GeoCommons – a crowd-sourced repository of statistical data and social feeds that can be easily mapped, remixed and reused by non-technical users.
Sean has been featured in media such as, Wired, Der Spiegel, ABC, Washington Post, Business 2.0, MSNBC, CBS and CNN. He also holds a PhD. From George Mason University in Public Policy where he was the Provost’s High Potential Scholar and was the recipient of the Fischer Prize. He has published dozens of articles on geographic data sharing and analysis, and authored the book Networks, Complexity and Security: The Role of Public Policy in Critical Infrastructure Protection. Read more from this authorWe managed to survive the holiday break – which meant digging out of three Colorado blizzards for me. On the upside the skiing was awesome. While I was hiding in 15 foot snow drifts the dev folks here were busy building out GeoCommons – our data repository social network designer mutt. There was an informal naming contest and GeoCommons best epitomized what we are making a run at, although I really liked Where-dat.com for pure entertainment value.
We are starting internal testing and looking for early adopters that would like to join in the fun. If you have geographic data you would like share and mashup up with our data and others we’d love to hear from you. We’ll have the social network functionality going and you’ll be able to upload and download data from GeoCommons. In addition you’ll be able to take your data and anyone else’s in GeoCommons and make a mashup with our heat map action as well. So, please join the party – right now all the profile pictures are of Minh, and while he is a damn good looking individual we need some variety. Just drop us a line at info@fortiusone.com if you are interested.
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