Links List 3.21.08
March 21st, 2008by 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 authorVery Spatial shows us that we’re heading in the right direction with the ability to tell stories using mapping technologies. Location and digital narratives are combined with the Digital Storytelling series from the College of Education at the University of Houston.
A recent article in the San Antonio Express News brings the issue of privacy in Google Maps front and center again, as reported by The Map Room. Although Google Maps offers an option to remove images, many people are still uncomfortable with the idea that they are being “watched”.
Kids are getting involved in GIS technologies, with the KidsGIS portal. This uses a simple, web-based mapping and GIS program that allows kids to interact and learn about a variety of issues (the first being environmental) in a fun new way.
Moxie is relieved that the “Geoweb is finally complete and born”, at least according to what was heard at the ESRI Developer Summit this week. Google Map mashups are able to go above and beyond using Geoprocessing and GIS technologies.
Mapperz provides details on the Google Chart API, which lets you dynamically generate charts and thematic maps.
Check this out, a new booklet called “Digital Geography – Geographic Visualisation for Urban Environments” gives insights and tutorials on Virtual Earth, Google Earth, Google Maps, Panoramas and Second Life.
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