Links List 4.28.08
April 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 authorAll Points Blog shares an article from Federal Times that looks at how government agencies are using Google and Microsoft for mapping applications.
Crowd-sourced data and seismology are discussed on Geomantic.
Privacy and GIS data are reviewed by GISLounge, which displays the public concern over privacy in imagery and information.
Mapperz announces that Yahoo Local is including GeoSpatial search functions now, providing search results that can be interactively expanded/refined by geographical location.
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March 12th, 2010 at 7:35 am
Would you kindly translate your website into Italian because I’m not that comfortable reading it in English? I’m getting tired of using Google Translate all the time, there is a cool WordPress plugin called like global translator which will translate all your articles automatically- this would make reading posts on your awesome blog even more enjoyable. Cheers dude, Manuel Andrson!
March 14th, 2010 at 1:59 am
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