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We’ve come a long way in the development and usage of data standards. I’ve personally been working over the last few years to push the adoption of formats like GeoRSS and OpenSearch-Geo. These have been baked deeply into any project or product that [...]

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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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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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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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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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Yesterday, the Huffington Post posted a short article on its front page titled “How the Economic Impact of the Oil Spill is Spreading Beyond the Gulf.” This article featured an embed of a map created in GeoCommons showing the BP [...]

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