We are incredibly thrilled to share the news that FortiusOne is acquiring Mapufacture . You can read more about the news at HighEarthOrbit , the FortiusOne blog , and Brain Off . Here is the official press release .
We have a history of working closely with the team at FortiusOne. Together we share a common vision of building the pieces of the GeoWeb with free, accessible data and easy to use geospatial tools. They recently released GeoCommons Finder! that enables easy sharing of KML, CSV, and Shapefile data, and will very soon be announcing more pieces of the GeoCommons suite.
By comparison, Mapufacture has been focused on tying into the dynamic geoweb of syndicated data and web services. We’ve built adapters to many social and map making sites, as well as generally gathering up the available GeoRSS and KML that has been emerging and providing interfaces to find, visualize, and access these in a variety of formats.
Together, FortiusOne and Mapufacture will be ...
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Mapufacture as a Personal Descision Support SystemFrom: blog.mapufacture.com
Post Date: 2008-06-19 08:29:42
Last fall we participated in the exploration and standardization of KML in the OGC as part of the OWS-5 testbed . The culmination of this effort was demonstrating some of the key features of KML 2.2, integration with other OGC Web Services (hence the OWS), and the broader GeoWeb.
Mapufacture volunteered to put together a demonstration use and screencast for illustrating this that we presented at the summary session of the three day TC (Technical Committee) meeting. The follow...
more Mapufacture Support ForumsFrom: blog.mapufacture.com
Post Date: 2008-06-11 07:14:09
At Mapufacture, we have created a lot of tools to make it easy for users to build and share maps. It’s not always easy to provide powerful tools in intuitive interfaces. And while we’ve definitely seen some really terrific maps created by people, we also understand there are others who may encounter problems with knowing how best to use the site, find interesting feeds and services, or even (gasp!) bugs.
To help assist the community, we’ve teamed up with GetSatisf...
more Following Euro08? Get the MapFrom: blog.mapufacture.com
Post Date: 2008-06-09 17:20:15
As many may be aware, the football/soccer tournament Euro2008 is currently being played in central Europe. EuroKickoff offers up a Calendar and API for accessing the games.
I imported this feed into Mapufacture to make a map of the events . You can even filter the events with the Mapufacture time sliders.
Euro2008 Map ...
more Geospatial Aggregation for Health Situational AwarenessFrom: blog.mapufacture.com
Post Date: 2008-06-09 13:34:31
BlinkGeo pointed to this terrific article The Great Health Mashup .
It summarizes the benefits of aggregating and visualizing multiple geospatial data streams together to aid with awareness and decision making. In this specific case, it is used to monitor health conditions - but the same ideas and technologies can be applied to numerous other domains.
In fact, these tools become really powerful when you merge together disparate data sets. As the article points out, overlaying weather and...
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