Links List 5.5.08
May 5th, 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 authorMapufacture shows off some new functionality which includes adding layers of data. With improved layering and editing options, users will be able to visualize data in a whole new way.
Microsoft has declared “geotagging has gone mainstream”. Microsoft Pro Photo and the power of metadata are discussed by Dan Catt.
Local and federal government continues to find a way to utilize geodata and GIS technologies. GeoBlade is based on an ESRI platform and is being offered to local government agencies in need of an enterprise GIS solution.
GIS Lounge shares a post that advocates the use of Google Earth over GIS mapping applications for its ease of use in sharing archaeological and paleontological data.
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