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Semantics, Semantics, Everywhere, Nor Any Drop to Drink

On March 20, 2008 By Sean Gorman

It seems like it is a daily dose of semantic web on the tech blogs of late. Today it was Textwise’s Million Dollar Semantic Hacker Challenge and a few days ago it was Yahoo opening their search platform to support a wide variety of semantic web standards. This has lead to a [...]

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Improving the Value of Forecasts Through an Online, Interactive Mapping Environment: The Example of Wildfire Planning

On November 3, 2007 By admin

The Utility of Maps in Hazard Forecasting

The recent wildfires in Southern California remind of us of just how important hazard forecasting has become in helping to ensure the safety and welfare of the public and the role that mapping can play in the process. Short-term forecasts of fire direction and intensity were pivotal [...]

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How Much Metadata is Enough: Is there a GIS – Neogeography Middle Ground?

On June 20, 2007 By Sean Gorman

A few weeks ago James Fee wrote a blog post about a debate he had with Steven Citron-Pousty concerning the usefulness of GeoCommons. From a high level the argument came down to the GIS vs. Neogeogrpahy debate. There were great quotes on both sides like “freaking sweet” in support and “pretty worthless” [...]

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Every Time you say Web 3.0 a Start-up Dies

On March 28, 2007 By Sean Gorman

A while back Anthony Townsend sent me a funny blog link which had him wearing a t-shirt that said “Every time you say Web 3.0 a start up dies ”

This quickly became a running joke in the office since we had a Web 4.0 milestone running in Trac for a while. [...]

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The Data Respository, Social Networks, and Geospatial Software as a Service

On December 4, 2006 By Sean Gorman

It has been an interesting week with an article in the Washington Post and InformationWeek on the launch of GeoIQ and the upcoming data repository. Thought I‘d take some time to go into more detail with what we have in mind combing the two into the foundation [...]

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