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 [...]
Continue Reading →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 [...]
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