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USGIF member company GeoEye announced yesterday that it has partnered with Google Earth and has made available satellite images of the aftermath of the Haiti earthquake. The devastating earthquake hit Haiti on Monday has caused untold property damaged and casualties. As we posted yesterday, GEOINT plays a critical role in natural disasters and GeoEye is certainly helping by providing the data and imagery needed to assess the situation. And, as Admiral Murrett said “GEOINT saves lives.” Along those lines, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) announced its efforts on the Haiti front. And, finally, USGIF member company FortiusOne has been busy updating its public site with quake and demographic data. To learn more about FortiusOne’s efforts click here.

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USGIF member, GeoCommons, launched a very cool application called the “Obamameter” that allows you to track a number of economic attributes including stimulus spending, job creation and foreclosures. A prime example of how mapping tools can track the most important challenge facing our nation: the economy. We recommend you check out the application here.

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FortiusOne clearly has a strategy aimed at bringing geospatial intelligence, GIS and the mapping world into the hands of the masses and to virtually any industry/government sector that can benefit from mapping data. We recently received a briefing on its Geocommons offering by Sean Gorman, who founded FortiusOne in 2005 when he was a student at George Mason University.

Side note: our readers may recall that in 2003, Mr. Gorman made the headlines for developing very detailed maps of U.S. infrastructure along with the fiber-optic network that connects businesses and government (all collected from public sources), which caused quite a stir.

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