Links List 4.11.08
April 11th, 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 authorBrett Taylor says that we need a Wikipedia for data. He realizes how hard it is for a everyday programmer to get access to even the most basic factual data, which is a barrier to innovation.
Dave Bouwman shows us the National Geographic MetaLens service with Virtual Earth. MetaLens is a geospatial content management and archival system that National Geographic uses to secure and manage its content.
Dan Catt from Geobloggers and Flickr shares the new Flickr video and geo-tagging option.
James Fee shares how to leverage the Google application engine with GIS applications. He also reviews the confusing commercial difference in licenses with Microsoft Virtual Earth Mapcruncher and the MSR edition.
According to GISUSer, General Dynamics has completed the testing for Geo-Eye, an earth imaging satellite. GeoEye-1 is part of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) NextView program. The NextView program is designed to ensure that the NGA has access to commercial imagery in support of its mission to provide timely, relevant and accurate geospatial intelligence in support of national security.
GISLounge shares top causes of errors in online mapping systems, including inaccurate base data, accuracy of geocoding, lag time to incorporate newly developed areas and difficulty in interpreting variations on addresses.
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