As the continuing turmoil in the financial sector and a mind boggling trillion $ bailout are together contributing to the general feeling of economic gloom and doom across the nation, the distressing news of a big bank failure last Thursday made it worse. The Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS), announced that it had [...]
Continue Reading →Is the geospatial industry affected by the world’s financial situation? Not as much as you would think, according to Jeff Thurston and Matt Ball of V1 Magazine . Thurston claims the geospatial industry tools are relevant because they are based on reality. Ball states that as long as geospatial technologies serves [...]
Continue Reading →One of the biggest gatherings of geo-folks around is the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) with over 8,000 geographers, GIS specialists, and environmental scientists (aka PaleoTards).
I went to my first AAG conference in the spring of 1998 in Boston as a new Geography grad student at University of Florida. [...]
Continue Reading →Google Maps is moving above and beyond with their new mobile offering for Street View. The application now includes a 360 degree pedestrian perspective. Google Map’s mobile version was introduced this week and is available for the Blackberry and other smart phones.
Speaking of Google Maps, Googlers (members of the Google Team) [...]
Continue Reading →I naively would have never guessed that the blog post that with the most comments for “Off the Map” would be the recent blog ranking post. In hindsight it makes sense but I’m still a bit surprised at the can of worms it has opened. That said we really appreciate all the feedback and [...]
Continue Reading →Tesco is one of the most successful grocery chains in the world. The store is based in the UK but has recently ventured into the U.S. market. Tesco has created Fresh and Easy Supermarket stores that are a close relative of a Tesco Express in the UK.
These stores are [...]
Continue Reading →Looks like Ike is building into a dangerous storm and could cause trouble across Texas and Louisiana. We’re working hard here at FortiusOne to put together as much information as possible to help inform the public. Here is a running list of data we have aggregated so far:
NOAA, Hurricane Ike Five Day Forecast [...]
Continue Reading →What factors are holding up online mapping performance? There are three reasons why online mapping is still not at its best: Local listings, mapping errors and crowded mapping. Local submissions take time and can contain errors leading to information that is mapped improperly. Overlapping information (such as too many markers) can cause crowded [...]
Continue Reading →Raj has been burning the midnight oil running through the latest storm surge and wind speed data coming out of NOAA for Ike. I think the maps tell the story the best so I’ll get right to them:
Before the Storm Surge
This map shows the path of Ike in relation to population, [...]
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