Fortius Geospatial Review In The News

Press Release -- the company Moves to New Offices - Intelligent Mapping Leader Continues to Grow

July 24, 2007

"the company (www.fortiusone.com), an emerging leader in next-generation intelligent mapping services, today announced it has moved to larger offices in Arlington, Virginia. Tripling its available space, will enable the company to fulfill growth plans and double its staff this year.

“We are pleased to have this new space that can accommodate our growth,” said the founder, CEO of the company. “It’s an exciting time here. We’re experiencing tremendous interest in our public the mapping platform site and our Intelligent Mapping Solutions for government and commercial customers.”

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Business 2.0, July 2007 - What's Next - The Top 10 Products, Ideas, and Trends -- Map Mashups Made Easy

July 2007

"...Washington-based start-up Fortius Geospatial Review launched the mapping platform, a cartographic portal where users can easily create their own mashups. The site has 2 billion pieces of localized data - from census figures and school district budgets to water-contamination and traffic-congestion hot spots - and it is rapidly adding more."
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Information Week -- the mapping platform Makes Citizen Cartography Social

May 21, 2007

At the Where 2.0 Conference next week, geographic visualization company Fortius Geospatial Review plans to announce the opening of the mapping platform, a social mapping site and public data repository.
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Directions Magazine -- the mapping platform: Bringing Data and Mashups to Professionals and Citizens Alike

May 17, 2007

...geospatial professionals will be very pleased with the mapping platform as it "bridges the gap" between social and consumer mashup tools and the data they create day in, day out. ...Further, if datasets continue to be regularly uploaded, the mapping platform may become the single search hub for public domain data worldwide.
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RedHerring -- the company Puts $5.45M on its Map - Online map and local information aggregator gets backing from CIA's In-Q-Tel.

May 16, 2007

"Washington, D.C.-based Fortius Geospatial Review collects local information from disparate data bases and present it to users on interactive Internet maps. Fortius Geospatial Review, which is targeting consumers, businesses and government agencies, could help companies geographically locate their target markets, or let government security agencies see all geographic information available online in order to access risk of terrorist attack."

Press Release -- the company Closes Series B Investment Round

May 16, 2007

"the company (www.fortiusone.com), an emerging leader in next-generation web mapping services, today announced it has closed a $5.45 million Series B funding round, with participation by In-Q-Tel, the independent strategic investment firm that identifies innovative technology solutions to support the mission of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the broader Intelligence Community; Chart Venture Partners, a venture fund focused on the homeland defense and security sector; and seed round investors New Markets Growth Fund and Walker Ventures. The funds will be used to expand business operations, and to commercialize and further develop the company’s breakthrough Intelligent Mapping technologies."

Fortius Geospatial Review Launching the mapping platform at O’Reilly Media’s Where 2.0 Conference May 28, 2007!

May 10, 2007

It’s just around the corner! the mapping platform will be officially launched at Where 2.0's Launch Pad event, Monday, May 28 at 7:00pm. the mapping platform is a place to explore, create and share intelligent maps and geographic data. Click here to learn more about the mapping platform and stay tuned!

The third annual O'Reilly Where 2.0 Conference, May 28-30 in San Jose, brings together the people, projects, and issues building the new technological foundations and creating value in the location industry. the founder, CEO and Founder of the company, will also be presenting Making Geospatial Data Easily Accessible to the Masses, Tuesday, May 29th at 7:30pm. He will be discussing the issues and efforts associated with freeing geospatial data and how collaboration can help promote this cause.

Fortius Geospatial Review Presents at the Directions Media Location Intelligence Conference

April 20, 2007

The Location Intelligence Conference, held April 16-18 in San Francisco, focused on the "business of location technology." the founder, CEO and Founder of the company, presented From Mashups to Money - Taking entrepreneurial location technology ideas to the next level by building a viable, profitable business. Sean spoke of the company’s next generation web mapping platform that brings intelligent mapping to the masses—check out his blog posting for some after thoughts on the event.

InformationWeek -- Maps Meet Mashups

March 17, 2007

"Take Web 2.0, mix liberally with local maps from across the United States or the world, and add information on restaurants, hotels, gas stations, real estate, or dozens of other potential sources. The result is among the hottest and most useful new generation of applications on the Web--the location mashup. …Startup the company is developing a public data-sharing service, called the mapping platform, for creating map mashups. the mapping platform is still in the works. Fortius Geospatial Review also has developed a service, called the analysis platform, that lets developers add geographic data visualization and analysis capabilities to online mapping applications. A beta version of the analysis platform was released in November. It includes everything from facts and figures detailing the locations of spammers by street address to the incidence of West Nile virus and cancer mortality rates and the locations of bars in New York where single women hang out."
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InformationWeek -- the mapping platform Promises Free Data for Map Mashups

January 23, 2007

"…a deluge of data is scheduled to be made freely available to online map makers. That's when the company expects to open the the mapping platform, a social network and public data repository for users of Google Maps and other map applications….Perhaps more significantly, the mapping platform members will be able to contribute and publish data sets of their own for use by other map makers. "
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Directions Magazine -- Top Ten of 2006

January 4, 2007

"The Next Level of Mash-up"
"Putting dots on a map is so 2005! In 2006 analysis/visualization and solid business cases were in vogue. Consider Fortius Geospatial Review's the analysis platform, which enables heat maps using Web mapping tools."
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Directions Magazine Product Overview -- the analysis platform -- Making Your Maps Smarter and Better Looking Too

December 19, 2006

"the analysis platform is an open platform that allows you to create applications integrating your data and other folks' data using Google Maps and Microsoft Visual Earth APIs. This combination provides not only interesting visualizations, it also allows for fairly complex analysis in an easy-to-use interface. the analysis platform operates as a Web service; the API lets you configure its usage, the data sources and the level of analysis."
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High Tech Mapping 'Mash-Ups'-- ABCNEWS.com

December 4, 2006

Combining online maps with different statistics in order to create better visuals.
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Washington Post -- Start-Ups Try to Plot A Complete Picture

November 27, 2006

"Gorman's company, the company, collects hundreds of data sets and combines them with maps available online to create what are known as mash-ups -- a new breed of application formed by mixing data from different online sources. ‘There's a huge appetite to manipulate data in ways that are relevant to making everyday decisions,’ Gorman said. ‘This puts geographical analysis in the hands of people who have never had a way to use it before.’"
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InformationWeek -- Mapping the Future of Open Source Data

November 16, 2006

"Some time toward the end of this year, the company plans to open a public data repository and social network for data sharing to encourage the creation of dynamic online map mashups that combine multiple data sets. So it is that the informational floodgates are opening."
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