Links List 5.30.08
May 30th, 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 authorAre paper maps no more? GIS Lounge reports that the cartography division of the California State Automobile Association is slowly being phased out. The cause for the demise is the widespread availability of online map directions and in-car navigation units which cut demand for the paper maps by 13% in 2007.
The Geospatial Semantic Web Blog shares some good news for the semantic web community. The U.S. Security and Exchange Commission recently proposed a timetable requiring 500 of the largest public companies to begin filling their financial data using XBRL (Extensible Business Reporting Language). This will create a mass amount of free and real-world data for research.
Speaking of data, Anand at DataWocky answers the question of why the world needs a new database system. He discusses high volumes of data that are not being utilized due to scalability. He points to the newly launched Aster Data which is a database system natively designed and architected from the ground up for a new hardware platform: commodity clusters.
Google Earth has a new browser plug-in, which continues its roll out of Google Map API for Flash and Google App Engine. Released with it is the very extensive Google Earth JavaScript API for writing 3D map applications. Moxie thinks that this has opened a new page for GeoWeb visualization.
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