I’ve just posted a screencast that walks through the process of finding and purchasing a dataset.

Just as I was finishing the script for this (last week), I saw that Adena Schutzberg posted A Graphic Tour of WeoGeo article on Directions Magazine. As always, I was impressed by Adena’s view of things. She gets it!

This morning, Adena also posted a podcast interview with Paul (CEO of WeoGeo) over on All Points Blog.

Press Releases - Directions Magazine:

AWare Systems to extend LibTiff library with support for the new BigTIFF format
May 17, 2007

LibTiff maintainers have started work on LibTiff 4.0, the next major upgrade of the time-proven TIFF codec. This upgrade will include support for the new BigTIFF file format. It is planned a preliminary version (LibTiff 4.0alpha1) will be operational by June 15, 2007. Testing and final release improvements for LibTiff 4.0 will be completed by July 30, 2007.

We’ve (OK it was actually Dave) created a new Del.icio.us account for the recent blogosphere coverage of WeoGeo. It is publicly available here:
weobuzz’s bookmarks on del.icio.us

Andrew Turner of High Earth Orbit and author of the excellent O’Reilly pub on Neo-geography has given some kudos to us:

High Earth Orbit » Blog Archive » Web2.0 Expo & Location Intelligence Wrap-up:

Weogeo is making the eBay for maps. More on that after they release, but it’s very cool, just check out their current front-page to get a flavor for what will be coming.

Adena Schutzberg, Executive, Director of Directions Magazine, has a nice article on the Location Intelligence Conference that mentions WeoGeo and Paul:

Location Intelligence 2007 Takeaways - Articles:

WeoGeo has a different twist on making money from datasets. Paul Bissett, the CEO, is implementing a soon-to-be-launched marketplace for data that will ensure the owner payment for them and for products built upon them. Or as he describes it on his blog: “a B2B portal and server solution to rapidly deliver mapping products to end user customers.” What platform underlies that effort? Amazon’s EC2 and S3 services. In fact, if I follow it correctly, WeoGeo, the company, built the platform WeoCEO which enables the WeoGeo Server. It’s that technology which powers the soon-to-be available B2B portal. I’ll go out on a limb here and note that Bissett reminds me of John Frank of MetaCarta and further, this solution has the potential, similar to MetaCarta, of turning a bit of the world of geo on its head.