From the monthly archives: March 2011

What Does NoGIS Mean?

On March 29, 2011 By Sean Gorman

Last night I saw a tweet from Mike Migurski at Stamen about a San Francisco meetup called NoGIS.  Totally intriguing, so I followed the link, and they had the following quick desciption posted up:

“What does mapping technology look like when it’s created distinctly for the web? What was once exclusively the realm of [...]

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This week I was at SxSW Interactive, for those that aren’t familiar it is a 5 day conference about new technology. I was there to be on a panel about “Interoperable Location Data” with Josh Babetski from Mapquest, Adam DuVander of Programmable Web, Scott Raymond from Gowalla and Tyler Bell of Factual. The premise of the panel was that many organizations are currently creating point of interest databases, but how do you combine them or allow them to interact?

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Today was literally a brand new day for FortiusOne; effective today we will be operating under the new brand of GeoIQ.  Many, especially within our customer roots at the US Intelligence Agencies, know the FortiusOne brand.  As the business grows, we want a brand name that is easy to say and clearly communicates what we [...]

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A few weeks ago, during US Presidents Day, Big Window Labs and Code For America held a Data Camp hackathon. Over the past two years there has been an increasing, and interesting, interaction at the convergence of technologists and government policy. Driven by, and [...]

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Over the President’s Day weekend Code for America held a DataCamp at Big Windows Labs in DC. There was a great diverse group of participants who came up with lots of innovative ideas for remixing government data and creating cool apps.

Travis Pinney, Kate Chapman and I decided to work on a project trying to [...]

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