Links List 3.28.08
March 28th, 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 authorThe AnyGeo blog shows a cool new visualization technique from the London Profiler. Using the Google Map Creator, the application visualizes neighborhood profiles using different area classifications through the Google Map interface.
If you want to create your own markers for Google Map mashup fun, check out the MapIconFactory 1.0.
James Fee reports on the Army’s most recent hire, its first geospatial information officer.
Moving beyond the aerial view, Google Maps now offers a street view with customizable visualization.
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April 1st, 2008 at 7:25 pm
Ha ha – I promised to give up mapping infrastructure for lent. I think we should go for creating Open Power Map. Map your own substation and provide a link to your meter reading. If everyone called up Miss Utility for their house and submitted the map we’d probably have the best map of the distribution network going. Most of the stuff that gets sold is transmission lines only. If you just had enough volunteers on meter readings you could probably provide a better simulation than what some folks get paid a lot of money to produce. Now that would get the guys in black suits showing up again
April 6th, 2008 at 6:26 am
I’m surprised, given Mr. Gorman’s research background, that this link didn’t make the cut.
- U.S. spy agency seeks data on power grid -
http://www.upi.com/International_Security/Emerging_Threats/Briefing/2008/03/28/us_spy_agency_seeks_data_on_power_grid/7981/