Thanks for the update Hunter. It seems maven doesn't like the locationtech repo? I can run wget on all the .pom URIs in the output below, so my machine can definitely reach these files over the network just fine.
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO]
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[INFO] Building GeoMesa GDELT 1.0-SNAPSHOT
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
Jan 15, 2015 7:35:46 PM org.apache.maven.wagon.providers.http.httpclient.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient tryExecute
INFO: I/O exception (org.apache.maven.wagon.providers.http.httpclient.NoHttpResponseException) caught when processing request: The target server failed to respond
Jan 15, 2015 7:35:46 PM org.apache.maven.wagon.providers.http.httpclient.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient tryExecute
INFO: Retrying request
Jan 15, 2015 7:35:49 PM org.apache.maven.wagon.providers.http.httpclient.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient tryExecute
INFO: I/O exception (org.apache.maven.wagon.providers.http.httpclient.NoHttpResponseException) caught when processing request: The target server failed to respond
Jan 15, 2015 7:35:49 PM org.apache.maven.wagon.providers.http.httpclient.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient tryExecute
Thanks in advance,
Mike