From the monthly archives: September 2010

This week is the second annual International Conference on Crisis Mapping. It is a conference to bring together various practitioners in utilizing mapping and location with regards to crisis response. The event starts Thursday with workshops in OpenStreetMap, Ushahidi, Sahana and Frontline SMS. Friday is Ignite Talks, the Keynote and the [...]

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We are excited to be partnered with Appcelerator to launch their new Titanium+Geo product. For those not familiar with Appcelerator they are largest mobile app development platform going with over 72,000 developers and 4,200 public apps increasing at a rate 1,000 apps per month, and deployed over 5,000,000 mobile devices.

When Appcelerator wanted [...]

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One of the cool new features in our latest update to GeoCommons is the ability to add temporal visualization to any data set with a time stamp. No extra work is needed. When you get to the end of creating your map GeoCommons will automatically detect if there is a time stamp in the data [...]

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If you’ve traveled to GeoCommons in the past day you may have noticed two old friends strangely missing. I’m referring to Finder! and Maker! specifically. This superficial change is indicative of more substantial changes that happened under the hood. For starters we have refactored our Ruby on Rails codebase, previously there were three Rails [...]

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Chris Helm joins FortiusOne

On September 22, 2010 By Andrew Turner

FortiusOne is rapidly growing and we have a very dedicated core engineering team and we want to work with other like minded, excited, intelligent and talented people that we respect. It’s difficult to find that right mix of a person that fits so well with [...]

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IgniteSpatial NoCo2

On September 21, 2010 By admin

Last week I spoke at IgniteSpatial NoCo2 about “Spatiotemporal Analysis for Mobile Application Analysis.”  In my talk I did two scenarios, one reviewing the Discovery Channel Hostage situation which I blogged about a couple weeks ago.  The other analysis was discussing mobile/tweet analysis around pizza places in San Francisco.  Key for both [...]

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Yesterday much of the D.C. area was watching a stand-off between James J. Lee and police at Discovery Channel’s Headquarters just outside of Washington D.C.  I found out about the incident as I get most of my news, through Twitter.  I was interested in seeing if people were actually tweeting about the incident from [...]

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