With an ever increasing number of reports streaming in, we felt it was time to bring Google Earth into the mix.
Google Earth lets you fly anywhere on Earth to view satellite imagery, maps, terrain, 3D buildings, from galaxies in outer space to the canyons of the ocean.
Now you can add reported oil sightings from the Deepwater oil spill to that already extensive list. Visit the maps section and click on 'View in Google Earth' to try out this exciting new functionality!
Intridea - Based in Washington, D.C., Intridea is a web products & services company specializing in agile application development, user interface design, and custom mobile app solutions. Founded in 2003 by some of the brightest minds in the region, Intridea has a proven track record in deploying award-winning social & collaborative web tools for the Enterprise.
The popular Ruby on Rails hosting company Heroku featured Oil Reporter in their June newsletter today as the featured app of the month.
We're excited about OilReporter for three reasons. First, it's a well-done app for a good cause. Second it's a great example of the potential power of open data; all data gathered by the app is open and available to the general public as well as to third party developers. And finally here's the kicker: Intridea built, deployed, and launched the app in 3 days from start-to-finish. Read about how they did it on their blog.
OilReporter.org is proud to be named as the app of the month. We're also happy to be hosted on Heroku's scalable cloud hosting platform.
Thank you Heroku!
Intridea - Based in Washington, D.C., Intridea is a web products & services company specializing in agile application development, user interface design, and custom mobile app solutions. Founded in 2003 by some of the brightest minds in the region, Intridea has a proven track record in deploying award-winning social & collaborative web tools for the Enterprise.
Android developer, Sean Soverby, just launched a very cool Android app with the Oil Reporter API called Oil Reporter Map. This application maps oil incidents and details related to the Deepwater BP Oil Spill from data collected and maintained by Oil Reporter. Sean says it took him only 4 hours to develop by hand and has already yielded 400 downloads.
He's already working on version 1.3 of his app and plans on integrating Facebook as well as several other new features this week.
Way to go Sean! You can find Oil Reporter Map on our tools page.
We hope new apps like Seans encourage even more developers to sign up for the Oil Reporter API and start hacking for the Deepwater BP Oil Spill. By the way, more than sixty new developers signed up for the API just last week!
Oil Reporter Map
Intridea - Based in Washington, D.C., Intridea is a web products & services company specializing in agile application development, user interface design, and custom mobile app solutions. Founded in 2003 by some of the brightest minds in the region, Intridea has a proven track record in deploying award-winning social & collaborative web tools for the Enterprise.
Brendan Lim is Intridea's mobile application extraordinaire. Brendan spent his days as a systems architect at a mobile startup called kajeet, Inc. He also found the time to co-found, design, and lead development on Yappd, a microblogging social network, built on Rails, that was featured in such publications as PC Magazine, TechCrunch and Mashable.
Chris Selmer is an expert Ruby on Rails architect with over 10 years of project leadership and hands-on development experience. He specializes in leading small teams on fast-paced development projects as Director of Client Solutions at Intridea.
Sean Soper is a Software Architect at Intridea. A Ruby enthusiast for over five years, Sean brings a decade of software development experience in industries ranging from defense to health care. In addition, he is a registered iPhone developer with several apps to his name. An avid learner, Sean is constantly seeking out interesting languages and solving computer science-related problems.
Jonathan Nelson is the Marketing Director at Intridea. A Ruby on Rails expert and web design artisan with over 10 years of professional experience in launching new products and turning emerging business opportunities into profitable, mature businesses.
