From the monthly archives: August 2010

The F1 team is excited to welcome Frank Moyer to the family. The growth of the company and the maturation of the GeoIQ platform has made this the perfect time to bring in additional horsepower to take F1 to the next level. Frank brings a great set of management and technical experience to the team. [...]

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Flooding in Northwest Pakistan

On August 18, 2010 By admin

At the end of July heavy monsoon rains hit Pakistan and caused terrible flooding throughout the country. Many are now struggling to survive amongst the terrible conditions while waiting for floodwaters to recede and aid to arrive. Below is a before and after picture of the devastation of the flooding in the Indus River [...]

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FortiusOne has been involved in a project to map all the World Bank’s projects. Dubbed “Mapping for Results” it is a collaboration between Development Gateway, AidData and the World Bank.  The initial step is to actually map where the projects are taking place. Geocoding is the process of placing information in its geographic place. [...]

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I’m excited to announce that Andrei Taraschuk, from UMapper and AFComponents, has officially joined the FortiusOne engineering team. He will be head of our visualization development in building out Maker to encompass the capabilities [...]

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As he mentioned this morning on Twitter, Tim “Chippy” Waters is coming onboard to bring some serious psychogeography and new geospatial capabilities to GeoCommons.

Tim has many accomplishments, from Geocodr, the first geocoder based on Flickr photo tags [...]

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Off to Camp Roberts this Week!

On August 3, 2010 By admin

This week I’m off to Camp Roberts again for this quarter’s RELIEF exercise.  FortiusOne has been participating for the past year or so in RELIEF, which is a crisis response integration exercise.  Essentially different groups get together to hack on things and make them work together.

The first of these exercises that FortiusOne participated in [...]

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