Links List 10.31.08
October 31st, 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 authorWe’re wrapping up a great time at GEOINT this week, and wanted to share just a few short posts that caught our attention about the show. Sean Gillies gives his hilarious opinion of the GEOINT blog, while All Points Joe Francica shared a biting commentary for one vendor who denied him a picture. In all seriousness, it’s great that GEOINT has taken steps to be plugged in to social media through their blog, Twitter account and Facebook group. Although, it would have been nice to hear about the blog before the announcement on Tuesday so that people could connect online before the show.
Google Earth for the iPhone came out this week, and it’s pretty slick. A really cool feature is that Google Earth is available in offline mode through the iPhone and desktop by simply choosing to “continue without network”. It also remembers your cache, so any searches or locations you have viewed in the past will transfer between desktop and phone with or without internet connection.
Just in time for Halloween, Virender at Mibizaar posted a mashup with the creepiest places on earth. Bhangarh, India topped the list. Very Spatial listed some data of all the corn mazes in the country. Something fun for everyone!
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