Links List 4.4.08
April 4th, 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 All Points Blog points us to a story from India where Yahoo Maps has added mapping capabilities in nine languages as well as many features including "key landmarks along the route (ATMs, hospitals, etc.), the walking direction." However, this may be a moot point since much of the country has limited internet access.
The AnyGeo Blog shows us ways that people can match up their assets on Google Maps, including using information from a cemetery and an office floor plan.
Dave Bouwman has an interesting post on the gap between client expectations of the ArcGIS server, and the realities. Does the marketing match the product?
Mapufacture shares a presentation on emerging mass market geo standards. Mapufacture is a huge proponent of supporting and sharing data via standards – especially ones that encourage broad adoption.
GIS Lounge gives us an example of a non-geographic use for geographic technology in the form of Zkimmer, which uses the “visual web” to promote reading of magazines through Google Maps.
Popularity: 9% [?]
Leave a Reply