Fortius Geospatial Review In the News
"the mapping platform.com hosts data, from crime rates to melanoma statistics, that can be combined to create colour-coded “heat maps” of intangibles such as “hipness”." "When the analytical insights and data quality of GIS are combined with the geoweb's visualisation and networking prowess, startling efficiencies emerge."- The Economist
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The Mason Gazette - What You Don't Know Might Hurt You: Alum's Work Balances National Security and Information Sharing
November 19, 2007
"Gorman’s vision for the company is for the company to play a key role in interconnecting and sharing the world’s geographic data to make people better informed about issues that affect their neighborhood and the world around them. He believes that many of the policy issues facing the public can be conveyed in a powerful way with maps and that the mapping platform can help facilitate that awareness. “Security is where we got our start, but we feel the future of the technology is in sharing information and educating the public with a variety of serious and fun data you can visualize on a map,” says Gorman." Read More
The Economist - The World on Your Desktop
September 6, 2007
"As the internet becomes intertwined with the real world, the resulting “geoweb” has many uses…these examples illustrate the emerging architecture of the geoweb: data, such as information on traffic jams or seismic tremors, is hosted separately from the images and models of the geobrowser, which assembles, combines and displays the information in new ways. the mapping platform.com hosts data, from crime rates to melanoma statistics, that can be combined to create colour-coded “heat maps” of intangibles such as “hipness”."
"When the analytical insights and data quality of GIS are combined with the geoweb's visualisation and networking prowess, startling efficiencies emerge." Read More
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 the company 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." Read More
WIRED -- Find Hip Housing, Earthquakes and Bigfoot At the mapping platform
May 29, 2007
"the mapping platform is a web service that hosts an open database for sets of geodata anyone can mash together to create custom maps. ...The screenshot above shows an excellent and creative application of the service."