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 author

Since we decided to put off the GeoCommons launch till Where 2.0 we had an empty void to fill – the over whelming urge to launch something. Since we need immediate gratification of some sort we decided to push out PollMappr. Mookie and Matt came up with PollMappr between Unreal fun on Fridays. The basic idea is a syndicated poll anyone can create and drop into a blog or webpage then look at the results on Google Earth. The first version tallies up all the votes for the poll by state then gives you a purty map in Google Earth showing the results. If you want the direct scoop check out Mookie’s blog post.

So we figured it would be a good tool to help us out with our BOF on “Geodata for Masses” at Where 2.0. The BOF would be a lot more fun if we had beer, but the question was what kind of beer to serve. Obviously, we should have a poll, see what wins and serve it up:

As an extra added bonus we’ll have a map of beer preference, so people can see where the hell people drink Michalob Ultra. Just having a beer poll is not quite exciting though, and what truly compliments beer well is a Cage Match. Everyone’s dying to know who would win in this one:

Lets face it though our ideas are not nearly as funny as what everyone else has come up with just today – www.pollmappr.com – so make your own poll drop it onto your blog or web page and have some fun.

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