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Moving Past Push Pins catalogs FortiusOne's new GeoCommons mashup program and its uses. Geocommons combines Google Earth with real-life datasets to create representative heat maps.
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Dataset of the Day: The New Digital (TV) Divide
Time to Switch over to Digital TV from the old analog system. This has been coming for a long time and its finally here. From the official DTV goverment website, “The switch from analog to digital broadcast television is referred to as the digi...
Dataset of the Day: Stimulus Projects and Unemployment
Everyone is keeping their eye on what will happen with Obama’s stimulus package. When it does pass, Obama pledges full “transparency,” so that “citizens can see how and where their tax dollars are being spent.” So as citizens, how c...
What Could the Obama Administration Mean for the GeoWeb?
With the elections over I’ve had a little time to think about what the new administration could mean for the GeoWeb. For those who follow the GeoWanking list serv there has been a raging debate on neogeography versus paleogeography. Some of t...
Andrew’s Talk at Web 2.0 Expo: Trends and Technology in Where 2.0
Our own Andrew Turner and Mikel Maron presented at Web 2.0 Expo today on trends and technology in Where 2.0. Cutting Edge Where 2.0 Trends To kick things off Brady Forrest of O’Reilly and Andrew just published a report on the GeoWeb space, it...
Near Real Time Beijing Pollution Data and Olympic Venues: Mapufacture and GeoCommons in Action
With several friends competing at the Beijing games the office has been following the stories about pollution and its possible impact on the games very closely. The best analogy a friend of mine gave after a practice at the rowing venue was “i...
Mapufacture Joins FortiusOne: The Long Tail Meets the Short Tail
We are very excited to announce that Mapufacture is joining FortiusOne. What started off as a joke at the bar “we should just combine the companies together to make Geo-Voltron” has quickly turned into reality. We’ve always admire...
Dataset of the day: Where are the Obamacans?
With the rise of post-partisan Obama on the national political scene, there have been sporadic stories in the print and on-line media , in Op-Eds, on the cable-news/YouTube and in the blogs; of how some influential Republicans have turned into Obama...
