Recently the United Nations Statistics Division released UNdata a catalog of a variety of UN data. In the about page it is described as “This database service is part of a project launched by UNSD in 2005, called “Statistics as a Public Good”, whose objectives are to provide free access to global [...]
Continue Reading →I have found the recent story about the “Barefoot Bandit” to be quite fascinating. It is incredible how someone could elude authorities for so long in this day and age.
I came across an interesting graphic about the story created by Matthew Bambach of the Seattle Times. It is a map of [...]
Continue Reading →Today I’m off to State of the Map in Girona, Spain. State of the Map or SotM is the annual OpenStreetMap conference. SotM is a mix of the businesses surrounding OpenStreetMap as well as the community. The three day conference encompasses three days, one business day and two community days.
I’ll be [...]
Continue Reading →Have you ever traveled out of the state you live in and found yourself saying, “Wow, people in this state are terrible at driving.” Now you can see if your claim was appropriate after looking at the GMAC Insurance National Drivers Test.
GMAC Insurance has been conducting an annual survey where respondents take [...]
Continue Reading →It has been great to see a dialog emerge on open data surrounding ESRI’s merging of Geodata.gov and Data.gov. I think Marten’s post title sums up my general consensus – “confusion”.
Every person I’ve talked to and every post on the topic has a different version of the story. [...] Continue Reading →At FortiusOne we have a history of mapping elections. Previously in this blog Sean Gorman discussed “Leveraging Open Data for Transparency” during the 2009 Afghanistan elections. This blog also looked at rates of violence and its potential impact on voter turnout in Afghanistan as well. We also provided a dashboard for the [...]
Continue Reading →Today I was on a panel at the InterAction Forum, which is a conference for member organizations within InterAction. InterAction is an coalition of NGOs with over 180 member organizations. In the past few months at FortiusOne we’ve been assisting them in tracking their projects and sharing their geographic data. The panel [...]
Continue Reading →Ever since the news broke that ESRI recieved a Whitehouse contract to:
merge a federal website that publishes geospatial information with Data.gov, the government’s depot for downloadable data sets, the company’s president said on Thursday.
California-based ESRI began last summer tying Data.gov to Geodata.gov, the geospatial information gateway, said company President Jack Dangermond in [...]
Continue Reading →The Understanding Risk Forum is this week in Washington D.C. at the World Bank. The intent of the event is to increase understanding of risk, make it more measurable and work on managing it better. FortiusOne is there in full force with myself and Bill Greer manning a booth in Innovation Fair and [...]
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