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Moving Past Push Pins
http://blog.fortiusone.com
Moving Past Push Pins catalogs FortiusOne's new GeoCommons mashup program and its uses. Geocommons combines Google Earth with real-life datasets to create representative heat maps.
- Added on: Jun 20th, 2007
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Mike Nelson
- Listed in: Innovation Technology
- Tags: google earth 2.0 dataset mash up heat map
Recent Posts
Want to be a GeoCommons Engineer?
It’s time for the FortiusOne GeoCommons team to expand again - and we’re looking for an incredibly bright, hard working, and team oriented engineer to head up our operations team. GeoCommons is unique among most web applications - it isn&...
The U.S. Census and Housing Unit Estimates
Not long ago I posted a blog about the merits of having U.S. Census Bureau data available in GeoCommons. Part of my discussion was about accuracy and reliable sources of data. My claim was that I thought it was a safe assumption to make about gove...
Dataset of the Day: Republican Victory in Virginia
The big news this week was the republican victories in Tuesday’s general elections. Since I work in Arlington Virginia (although admittedly I am a Baltimore native and by no means familiar with local Virginian politics) I thought it would be approp...
Peter Batty and Jeff Harris Join the F1 Advisory Board
We are excited to announce that Jeff Harris and Peter Batty have joined the FortiusOne advisory board. The team is very fortunate to have such talented folks helping guide the company. We’ve taken on the often tough challenge of working in bo...
The Global Poverty Mapping Project
I recently tackled uploading some relatively complicated, yet highly informative data from The Global Poverty Mapping Project(GPMP). The creators (Columbia University Ivy Leaguers) mission is to “enhance current understanding of the global di...
The Once and Future Map: The Destiny of GIS
Back in the day Chris Ingrassia wrote a document for us on what he thought the future of GIS would be, called the “The Once and Future Map”. Two articles recently reminded of Chris’s thoughts. The first was Don Meltz’s blog ...
