From the monthly archives: November 2009

Dataset of the Day: Thanksgiving Giving and Food Banks

On November 24, 2009 By emily sciarillo

Thanksgiving is a time for giving thanks and for many it is also a time for giving. I thought I would show how GeoCommons can be used to promote giving back this holiday. One way many individuals and families give during Thanksgiving is by donating to or volunteering at a local food bank’s Thanksgiving [...]

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The Contradiction of Free Data and Business Models

On November 17, 2009 By Sean Gorman

I’ve been noticing two diverging themes lately when it comes to geo-stuff on the Web. First was all the buzz around Google ditching TeleAtlas and using their own data plus open data to support their base map. Second is the emerging and opposing of geo-related start ups looking at data marts or data [...]

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Want to be a GeoCommons Engineer?

On November 11, 2009 By Andrew Turner

It’s time for the FortiusOne GeoCommons team to expand again – and we’re looking for an incredibly bright, hard working, and team oriented engineer to head up our operations team.

GeoCommons is unique among most web applications – it isn’t just deployed to the public web, but also to intranets, the cloud, and to the [...]

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The U.S. Census and Housing Unit Estimates

On November 10, 2009 By admin

Not long ago I posted a blog about the merits of having U.S. Census Bureau data available in GeoCommons. Part of my discussion was about accuracy and reliable sources of data. My claim was that I thought it was a safe assumption to make about government sourced [...]

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Dataset of the Day: Republican Victory in Virginia

On November 7, 2009 By emily sciarillo

The big news this week was the republican victories in Tuesday’s general elections. Since I work in Arlington Virginia (although admittedly I am a Baltimore native and by no means familiar with local Virginian politics) I thought it would be appropriate to take a closer look at Virginia’s gubernatorial election in which Republican [...]

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Peter Batty and Jeff Harris Join the F1 Advisory Board

On November 4, 2009 By Sean Gorman

We are excited to announce that Jeff Harris and Peter Batty have joined the FortiusOne advisory board. The team is very fortunate to have such talented folks helping guide the company. We’ve taken on the often tough challenge of working in both the commercial and government space. Government funding continues to push [...]

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