Links List 5.23.08
May 23rd, 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 authorComputing, GIS and Archeology in the UK shares a tip for importing UK Mastermap data into Postgres or Shape files. The Mastermap importer imports mastermap data into ogr formats such as shapefiles, or into a postgresql database, in a free and easy to use way.
Glenn at the AnyGeo Blog posts an interesting question, who owns data? A recent article in Forbes prompted the question, and we’re really interested to know. We think that the more open data out there that is shared, the better everyone will be. Data ownership is all about creating a bigger network effect for data.
Last week we talked about Google’s Map API for Flash. But, does it really work? FlexRIA tries to work it out.
Free Geography Tools maps out PolicyMap, which is designed to easily display data on a map. With data and information from real estate to crime to health to schools, the possibilities are endless!
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