Links List 4.18.08
April 18th, 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 authorMoxie designed a demonstration to show how integrated geo spatial service, RIA technology, location based service and digital mapa can make life easier. From that, a geo spatial service was developed that enabled Flex Yahoo AS3 map application.
Virtual Earth has been updated to include new imagery, new 3D buildings, direct support for MapCruncher, movie capture, export to KML and GPX files, and more.
Geomantic shares some coverage of geospatial topics in the Washington Post the past week including a story on Yahoo! Maps Live and a mashup from the Center for Neighborhood Technologies.
GISLounge and the Daily ACK announced that KML is now an Open Geospatial Consortium Standard. This means that Google will no longer be responsible for maintaining the KML file format which, instead, will be handled by OGC. KML (Keyhole Markup Language) is a file format that uses XML-based language to manage geographic information.
Flowing Data provides a list of data visualization blogs you may not know about, including Strange Maps, Well-formed Data, Random Etc, Serial Consign, and AnyGeo.
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