http://blog.mapufacture.com news and discussion of the geoweb and aggregation Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:28:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://blog.mapufacture.com/2008/08/04/mapufacture-acquired-by-fortiusone/ At Mapufacture, we have been continually pushing out the boundaries of the GeoWeb and exploring new territory. Linking together complex geospatial data along with lightweight-dynamic GeoRSS and KML and then combining these together using new technologies for visualization and access on GPS and mobile devices. However, in the push to utilize ... http://blog.mapufacture.com/2008/07/30/pocketmaps-paper-maps-of-dynamic-data/ This morning, Business Week published an article, Making Maps Work When Disaster Strikes: GeoCommons, OpenStreetMap, and Mapufacture are three online hubs where people can collaboratively map areas, which could help in emergencies Read the full article. Discussing the recent hurricane in Myanmar, as well as the well-known issues around the ... http://blog.mapufacture.com/2008/07/07/business-week-covers-disaster-maps/ 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 ... http://blog.mapufacture.com/2008/06/19/mapufacture-as-a-personal-descision-support-system/ 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 ... http://blog.mapufacture.com/2008/06/11/mapufacture-support-forums/ 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. ... http://blog.mapufacture.com/2008/06/09/following-euro08-get-the-map/ 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 ... http://blog.mapufacture.com/2008/06/09/geospatial-aggregation-for-health-situational-awareness/ We're proudly sponsoring the OpenStreetMap conference, State of the Map, this July in Limerick, Ireland. You should totally go. Last year was the first SOTM, and that event fully assured me that OpenStreetMap was in good hands, many good hands, and here to stay. Now so much happens with OpenStreetMap, it's ... http://blog.mapufacture.com/2008/04/30/mapufacture-sponsors-state-of-the-map/ When designing Mapufacture it's a continuing challenge to provide users with understandable and easy to use interfaces for building maps and finding interesting data sources. The primary concept of Mapufacture is that you can choose an area of interest, and then add data feeds to your map as layers. The most ... http://blog.mapufacture.com/2008/04/28/easier-finding-and-adding-of-data-layers/ Last week I attended the OGC Technical Committee meeting in St. Louis, Missouri closing up the OWS-5 testbed. More on that soon. The OGC has different types of groups: Domain Working Groups (DWG) and Standards Working Group (SWG). Where SWGs are very formal, and working on defining a specific standard, such ... http://blog.mapufacture.com/2008/04/03/presentation-on-emerging-mass-market-geo-standards/