Links List 8.1.08
August 1st, 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 authorMicrosoft Virtual Earth and ESRI’s ArcGIS have integrated. Microsoft’s mapping and imagery content will be available for use inside ArcGIS 9.3. Users will be able to access ‘resources that add comprehensive depth to their projects.’ The new service is not free; it will be $200 a year per user.
ArcGIS Server 9.3 is going mobile. The TD Group announced the release of Freeance™ Mobile 2.0, a new application that incorporates ESRI’s ArcGIS Server 9.3 Postgres database integration for GPS enabled BlackBerry smartphones. Features include GIS searching and database reporting, and linking database records to GIS map features using reports.
After last week’s release of Google’s walking directions, they have decided to simplify the Google Maps layout. Google aims to create a less cluttered look, allowing for a bigger map display and moving the search to the top of the map. The motto for the new layout is: “less is more.”
ESRI posted their results of the 2008 ESRI Q&A. The answers reveal that ESRI will support ‘the ability to check out licenses and borrow licenses from a central license manger for use in that field’ and that they will continue to support Visual Basic for Application in the future. We’ll be attending the ESRI User’s Conference next week, so stay tuned for some feedback from that!
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