Archived GIS Snippets
Published in 2007
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Fatdoor is Now Available in the San Francisco Bay Area
Map-Based Community Network Brings Real-World Neighborhoods Online. Fatdoor™, a new community networking Web site dedicated to helping people get to know their neighbors, launched its service in the San Francisco Bay Area. Fatdoor brings together familiar social networking elements such as personal profiles, intra-personal connections, group networking and information sharing, but is centered on local neighborhoods. Using the Microsoft Virtual Earth online mapping platform as a base to visualize and explore a neighborhood, Fatdoor creates a social network for people who want to connect, communicate and share with others in their local communities. The alpha site is initially available as an invitation-only trial, and will be rolled-out in additional cities nationwide throughout the summer.
“Life is local, with people's communities extending in concentric circles from their homes to their neighborhoods, towns and beyond,” said Bill Harris, chairman of the board, Fatdoor. “Fatdoor mimics this on the Web. With rich maps and pre-populated data for more than 100 million households in the U.S., Fatdoor brings real neighborhoods online giving people the tools to find and communicate with their neighbors.”
By bringing together the best of existing social networking services, wikis, user-generated content and online mapping, Fatdoor enables people to connect, communicate and share with their neighbors.
- Connect: People can get to know their neighbors by exploring local profiles and interests, and discover new friends in the neighborhood.
- Communicate: Using the Fatdoor mail service, people can reach out to neighbors in a non-invasive, non-threatening way.
- Share: Once connections are made, neighbors can build their community around sharing common interests, pastimes and goals.
The company is based in Palo Alto, California, and is led by technology industry veterans such as Co-founder and CEO Raj Abhyanker, who is the inventor of the Fatdoor concept and an active local community leader in the Bay Area. He is also a patent attorney, an electrical engineer and was the CEO of numerous Internet startups in the mid 1990s. Co-founder and CTO Chandu Thota previously worked at Microsoft where he was a central figure in building the Microsoft Virtual Earth online mapping platform and Live Search Maps; he has also authored several books including the leading text on Virtual Earth and online mapping technology from O'Reilly Publishers. Board Chairman Bill Harris was formerly CEO of Intuit and PayPal.
Along with Microsoft Virtual Earth, Fatdoor also has technology relationships with Amazon.com, Google Inc., and Yahoo! Inc.
first published week of: 05/28/2007
Flight Landata’s BuckEye System Recognized by U.S. Army among Top 10 Inventions of 2006
Flight Landata Inc., a provider of digital remote sensing technology, has received the 2006 U.S. Army Greatest Inventions of the Year award for its BuckEye imaging system. The award recognizes technologies that have a significant impact on the readiness of the Army and on the effectiveness and safety of its soldiers.
For the past two years, the airborne version of BuckEye has been deployed by the U.S. Army in Iraq and Afghanistan. There it has successfully collected over 23,000 square kilometers of high resolution geospatial information and detected hundreds of battlefield threats before they could harm U.S. military personnel. In fact, the BuckEye has been so effective that the specifics of its operation remain classified.
Awarded in June 2007, the 2006 U.S. Army Greatest Inventions of the Year honor was shared by Flight Landata, the U.S. Army Topographic Engineering Center (TEC), the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC), and three other companies – all of which collaborated in developing BuckEye. The Army selection is but the latest accolade recognizing the effectiveness of the technology. The BuckEye was also honored with the Geospatial Intelligence Award for the government sector at the geospatial intelligence conference in November, 2006.
The BuckEye system enables soldiers in combat to identify potential threats by acquiring ultra-sharp, geo-referenced images of ground features using a digital airborne imaging device. Flown aboard conventional aircraft, the system analyzes rapidly-delivered imagery and automatically compares it with prior imagery on a pixel-by-pixel basis. BuckEye is capable of resolution as fine as 2 cm. Soldiers use the change detection analysis to identify minute topographical features that reveal the presence of roadside dangers and other hazards.
first published week of: 08/06/2007
Fort Walton Beach, Florida Selects GTG to Provide GIS Implementation Services
Geographic Technologies Group, Inc. (GTG), a leading provider of profes- and software for local government, announced today that the City of Fort Walton Beach, Florida has retained GTG to provide Geographic Information Systems Engineering and Consulting Services. GTG will be performing a needs assessment based on an evaluation of existing conditions and GIS needs. In addition to the GIS needs assessment, GTG also will complete a five-year GIS strategic plan that will document all phases of implementation.
Mr. Curtis Hinton, owner of Geographic Technologies Group, said, “GTG is excited to work with the City of Fort Walton Beach. Their staff have a genuine enthusiasm and vision for how GIS will improve their operations and streamline public service. The City is in a growth pattern and the staff realize that new ways of doing business are a must. Additionally, with the specter of the annual hurricane threat City staff understand they must have the best tools for disaster preparedness, response, and recovery at their disposal. The strategic plan will give staff a step-by-step roadmap of how to implement GIS in a cost effective and logical manner.”
first published week of: 07/16/2007
Frost & Sullivan Recognizes Autodesk for Location-based Services (LBS) Middleware Platform
Frost & Sullivan selected Autodesk, Inc. as the recipient of the 2007 North American Mobility Award for its location-based services (LBS) platform that brings together the technologies, content, and services needed for carriers to location-enable their service offerings.
The Autodesk LocationLogic platform provides the infrastructure, application services, content provisioning, and integration services for deploying and maintaining location-based services. The software gives application developers a set of open standards-based tools for creating new revenue-generating location services. LocationLogic also enhances the flexibility and reliability of mobile services by handling high-volume transaction loads. “An impressive list of Tier-1 carriers has chosen Autodesk LocationLogic as a trusted solution for commercial location-based services,” said Frost & Sullivan research director Brent Iadarola.
first published week of: 04/02/2007
FugawiI Launches new cell phone navigator and free mapping websie
PS software manufacturer Northport Systems, Inc., has launched Fugawi Touratel, a new cell phone-based outdoor navigation software and interactive web site, today for use in the United States.
Designed to enhance outdoor activities such as hiking, mountain biking, fishing, hunting and more, Fugawi Touratel provides exceptional map detail on a wide variety of mobile phone handsets as well as the complimentary touratel.com website.
A first in GPS software solutions for the outdoor recreation market, Fugawi Touratel is a Web 2.0-based cell phone navigation software product that delivers high-resolution US Geological Survey (USGS) topographic maps, air photos and urban photos to a wide variety of cell phone models within the USA. In addition, users receive a host of other useful third-party location based applications, such as detailed streets maps of the USA, all for one low monthly fee. Fugawi Touratel is currently compatible with many models from Motorola, Samsung, Sanyo and LG, on the Sprint, Alltel and Boost networks with more networks and cell phone models to be added shortly. Because Fugawi Touratel utilizes the cellular network-derived “Assisted GPS” location, the supported phones do not require a specific-use internal or Bluetooth connected GPS. Also, due to its unique Web 2.0 architecture, the user does not need to download and install client software – the entire Fugawi Touratel application works through the internet connection. Users will benefit from added map content and ongoing product development instantaneously, without the need to download updates or apply patches.
first published week of: 12/31/2007
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