From the monthly archives: December 2007

Retail Data on GeoCommons

On December 14, 2007 By bill greer

Its been another busy week here at FortiusOne, specifically focusing on adding a growing number of retail store locations to the data repository. If you’ve ever tried to find a list of store locations in the US or the World, then you’ll know how difficult it is to find. Website store locator’s can show you [...]

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Chris Marentis and Next Gen GeoCommons

On December 12, 2007 By Sean Gorman

Wanted to take this opportunity to let folks know that Chris Marentis has joined up with FortiusOne (check the new website) as our President and Chief Operations Officer. Chris was most recently CEO at Clearspring Technologies – the leading provider of cross-platform widget services. We are very excited and flattered that Chris has [...]

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NeoGeography vs. GIS: The Steel Cage Death Match Continues

On December 10, 2007 By Sean Gorman

There has been a flurry of blogging the last couple of days over a post on the “All Point Blog” that “Neogeography is not GIS“. The most interesting part has been seeing the response from friends like, Peter Batty, Andrew Turner, and Daniel Flatla, who’ve spent a lot of time thinking [...]

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Current Events on Geocommons

On December 10, 2007 By bill greer

Howdy from the FortiusOne Data Team,

I’m going try to start Blogging more about the most excellent assortment of Geocommons Data. I’ll also try to keep you informed of other Data related happenings, for example, we all got some pretty awesome Fortiusone fleece vests from Patagonia, Christmas came early this year.

To Start [...]

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Hot Housing Markets

On December 9, 2007 By admin

What’s so special about Cumberland, MD-WV? This energetic, small town is one of a select number of cities around the country that appears to be weathering the housing storm. While in many metropolitan areas housing prices are either stabilizing or are on a downward spiral, Cumberland’s market continues to climb. One indicator of prices, [...]

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GeoServer Map Collaboration Tools – "NYC Street Maps"

On December 6, 2007 By Sean Gorman

We’ve been doing work recently integrating GeoServer with GeoCommons to provide more hooks and capabilities for our platform. I was catching up reading the GeoServer blog and saw a new demo they had going to demonstrate their map annotations tools in development.

The map only has a base street map for [...]

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Obama campaign spending: Jan-Sep, 2007

On December 4, 2007 By admin

Obama campaign has spent well over $44.5 million in the first nine months of 2007 in over 600 cities and 1200 zipcode areas across the lower 48 states. The top five states account for nearly 64% of the money spent. These are:
1. IL $11.9 million
2. MA $3.9 million
3. PA [...]

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Clinton campaign spending: Jan-Sep, 2007

On December 3, 2007 By admin

Clinton campaign spent nearly $38 million (see the note at end) in nearly 1200 zipcode area in over 600 cities across the lower 48 states. The five states ranked in terms of the highest spending are:
1. DC $7.8 million
2. VA $6.5 million
3. NJ $3.9 million
4. UT $3.3 [...]

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Giuliani campaign spending: Jan-Sep, 2007

On December 2, 2007 By admin

Giuliani campaign has spent nearly $32 million (see the note below) in the first nine months of 2007 on items that include staff payrolls, travel, credit card payments, consulting, media etc. The top five states account for nearly 75% of the money spent that include more than 440 cities and over 870 zipcode areas in [...]

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Romney campaign spending: Jan-Sep, 2007

On December 2, 2007 By admin

Romney campaign spent more than $56 million (see the note at the end) in the first 9 months of 2007 in nearly 1,300 zipcode area of more than 740 cities across the lower 48 states. By far they have outspent major candidates of either party. In the two crucial caucus/primary states of Iowa and New [...]

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