September 6, 2013 – Anything Geospatial

Map Club is a new effort created by OSM founder Steve Coast (@steveC) and aims to be a friendly and supportive community to help people get more involved and productive with OpenStreetMap. According to Steve in a recent Hangout with James Fee (@cageyjames) challenges are faced with OSM, in particular with addressing and navigation attributes and with getting the community more involved with adding useful information to help with these areas.

The following options for membership are currently available from the MapClub:

Founding Member. For $4/month, access all map club services, starting with our mailing list of people like you.
Founding Pro Member. For $9/month, access all map club services, starting with our mailing list of people like you. In addition, Pro members influence the direction of the club by voting on what is to be built and receive a club t-shirt!
Founding Enterprise members are just like Pro members, for your entire organization.

This from MapClub… “Our long-term goal is to make sure OSM is complete, including address data and routing metadata.” See http://mapclub.com/

Some interesting research findings have revealed some startling findings when it comes to the state of application security. Quotium research shows the large majority of security managers feel their organization’s applications are still vulnerable to hacker attacks, despite best efforts to employ wide range of solutions to prevent application threats. One of the most interesting findings of this study is the gap between the efforts put into protecting applications and the actual state of the applications. While almost all organizations invest time, money and energy into protecting their infrastructure, using one or more types of service or technology, most applications remain vulnerable and are still being attacked. Findings of the results reveal the following: