In a previous blog, “Fantasy Football Fun: A Look at the Offense Side”, Matia posted an intriguing comment: “It would be interesting to see if certain states are more likely to produce offense positions or defensive linemen — you could control for state population and see if California and Florida really can stand up next [...]
Continue Reading →Wanted to take this opportunity to let folks know that Chris Marentis has joined up with FortiusOne (check the new website) as our President and Chief Operations Officer. Chris was most recently CEO at Clearspring Technologies – the leading provider of cross-platform widget services. We are very excited and flattered that Chris has [...]
Continue Reading →There has been a flurry of blogging the last couple of days over a post on the “All Point Blog” that “Neogeography is not GIS“. The most interesting part has been seeing the response from friends like, Peter Batty, Andrew Turner, and Daniel Flatla, who’ve spent a lot of time thinking [...]
Continue Reading →We’ve been playing around lately with some new data visualization techniques, so I started poking around to see what approaches have been generating buzz of late. In the process I came across Stamen Design’s very cool “Oakland CrimeSpotting” via Brady’s post on O’Reilly Radar. We’d been really impressed with what they did [...]
Continue Reading →NPR ran a story on Monday’s Morning Edition entitled “Security Officials Seek to Block Some Online Maps”. The story centered around local government officials refusing to release electronic maps of what they call “critical infrastructure,” such as water mains and fire hydrants. Specifically the story of Steven Whitaker’s futile quest to obtain infrastructure data [...]
Continue Reading →There were two great articles that popped up in the last week or so that I’ve been trying to carve out some time to blog about. The first was an insightful overview of the GeoWeb from The Economist called “The World on Your Desktop“. One of the major points in The Economist article is [...]
Continue Reading →Recently I had an editorial forwarded to me from Environment and Planning B titled “Just another private public partnership? Possible constraints on scientific information in virtual map browsers”, authored by Francis Harvey of the University of Leicester (those with access can find the article here). Environment and Planning B is an academic journal [...]
Continue Reading →One of the natural questions to follow a tragic event like the I 35W Minneapolis bridge collapse is where are there other bridges that could suffer a similar fate. In our last post we talked about the National Bridge Inventory, the valuable information contained in it, and the difficulty working with it.
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