From the monthly archives: May 2010

GIS in the Cloud

On May 25, 2010 By Andrew Turner

The GeoWeb has long been emerging; linked geospatial data, web maps, locative media. However, it has been primarily limited to small datasets of geolocated news items, blog posts or photos. What has been occuring within the last year is the move for larger, more capable GIS, geographic information systems, to [...]

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Sad that you missed Beer 4 Data – Arlington? I was sad I missed it myself. We are doing another one on Wednesday May 26th at RFD’s at 7pm (map). This gathering is again based on the success of the Beer 4 Data program in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. With the Gov [...]

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FortiusOne at Google I/O

On May 18, 2010 By admin

This week some of the other engineers are off to Google I/O, look for plenty of GeoIQ and Geocommons goodness in the Developer Sandbox there.  FortiusOne is a Google Enterprise Partner and we’ve performed integration with Google applications on both the Geocommons and GeoIQ side.  On Geocommons we’ve integrated with [...]

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The widely known evolving crisis of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is threatening to tremendously damage the wildlife and ecology of the coastline. The situation is unclear as reports of the continued spewing of 5,000 or up to 20,000 barrels a day are continuing to enter into the water through three exposed leaks. [...]

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