As some of you may have noticed, GeoCommons had an overly extended downtime yesterday. We deploy regular updates to GeoCommons as part of our continued feature improvements to the underlying GeoIQ platform. This update [...]
Continue Reading →Sad that you missed Beer 4 Data – Arlington? I was sad I missed it myself. We are doing another one on Wednesday May 26th at RFD’s at 7pm (map). This gathering is again based on the success of the Beer 4 Data program in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. With the Gov [...]
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 →The widely known evolving crisis of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is threatening to tremendously damage the wildlife and ecology of the coastline. The situation is unclear as reports of the continued spewing of 5,000 or up to 20,000 barrels a day are continuing to enter into the water through three exposed leaks. [...]
Continue Reading →It was almost a month ago that the now infamous Icelandic volcano “Eyjafjallajokull” erupted. Since then it has been sporadically spewing a mix of toxic gases and ash into the atmosphere. Thanks to catching a ride on the jet stream the output of the mid-April eruption has managed to create a major head-ache hundreds [...]
Continue Reading →Yesterday I was in a session at the American Association of Geographers on “Convergence in the GeoWeb: Volunteered geographic information, spatial data infrastructures, and public participation”. Good talks all around and some interesting discussion in the Q&A period. Renee Sieber had a simple but prescient question “Is Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) the [...]
Continue Reading →I came across an interesting article on CNN.com the other day. The article, Napa Wine Train in middle of stimulus fight by Randi Kaye, talks about a wine train tour in Napa, CA that is under heat for being on a report by Republican Senators Tom Coburn and John McCain. This report [...]
Continue Reading →The data repository in Finder! has been growing and the variety of data within Finder! is now quite extensive. To help you navigate through this data we have added some new sort features and will give you a few new search tips as well.
When you do a general search in Finder! you now [...]
Continue Reading →The last few weeks have been fast paced. Between emergency response, big data migrations, and new feature launches an over arching theme has emerged in my mind. The Web’s demonstrative capacity for adaptive change – specifically the growing geo-enabled components of the Web. Pundits have talked for a while about the emergence of the locative [...]
Continue Reading →While we continue to support the reconstruction efforts in Haiti, this morning brought news of the 8.8 scale Earthquake off the coast of Chile.
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