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 author

Ogle Earth shares a plethora of links with everything from a 3-D globe viewer from Microsoft Virtual Earth’s API to heatmaps of georeferenced Panoramio photos to a job search using ReliefWeb’s map of humanitarian vacancies. It really shows that you can use a map for anything.

Reverse geocoding for Google Maps is now available, and Google Maps Mania has a comprehensive review. Reverse geocoding is pretty cool, it allows users to enter in the latitude and longitude of your location and then provide the physical address (for example, FortiusOne’s mailing/street address).

Journalists take note. The AnyGeo Blog points out how important the visual of a map is in telling a story. Reading a recent article in the local Fort Collins, CO paper, Glenn says, “I can’t help to think how much more useful the article in the paper would have been by simply posting the actual map or a link and forget about all the blabber.”

The Click2Map blog gives an overview and insight into the Google Gears Geolocation API for laptop wi-fi users. The original intent of the Gears Geolocation API was for developers to easily deliver location enabled web sites on mobile phones. But the team realized that laptop users could benefit as well, so added that functionality to the product. Even better, the Gears Geolocation API is free.

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