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 [...]
Continue Reading →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 [...]
Continue Reading →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 [...]
Continue Reading →OpenSearch specifies rules for sending and receiving data from websites. GeoCommons supports OpenSearch for querying of both maps and overlays. For non-programmers the most common use of OpenSearch is adding search providers to your browser. Google Chrome, Internet Explorer and Firefox all support OpenSearch.
Here is the dropdown of my search providers in Firefox. In [...]
Continue Reading →For Colbert fans the “Better Know a District” series is a familiar part of the Colbert Report. Today I’m kicking off my own series “Better Know a GeoCommons Feature.” I’d like you to meet one of our lesser known export formats Spatialite.
For those not familiar with SpatiaLite it is SQLite with spatial function [...]
Continue Reading →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 [...]
Continue Reading →In July at State of the Map Andrew Turner announced the release of our open source geocoder gem. Since then it has been tried, bugs have been found and we’ve continued to improve it.
Following that announcement we’ve integrated our geocoder into GeoCommons. [...]
Continue Reading →Last week I represented FortiusOne at the FutureRuby conference. A bit of background first. Ruby is the language we’ve used to build our applications. The flexibility of syntax, the focus on programmer productivity and the vibrant community around Ruby have helped make it a success here and in many companies. So it only [...]
Continue Reading →At FortiusOne, we have developed and launched a number of advanced projects. Our flagship product, GeoIQ, and the public GeoCommons application have been leading-edge web platforms for the sharing, visualization, [...]
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