Lessons Learned From Neogeography Nc Gis 2009

Lessons Learned from Neogeography Applied to GIS Andrew Turner Presented at the andrew@fortiusone.com North Carolina GIS Conference http://highearthorbit.com February 20, 2009 in Raleigh, NC

Who am I?

The path to becoming a neogeographer

http://ﬂickr.com/photos/x180/2494170626/ Who are the Neogeographers?

How did we get here? Cartographic Evolution

GeoWeb GoogleMaps & GoogleEarth Mashups Geolocated Mobile Devices

Locative Media Happiness Maps HeadMap Manifesto Mapping Hacks

Mobile Devices Cheap Broadband Open GPS

Web Mapping

Planning

Navigation

Mapping Renaissance

Storytelling

Functionality Future GIS Server OSGeo Increasing Accessibility GIS Open Tools Money + Time Cost Geospatial Trend

What is the key difference between GIS and Neogeography?

GIS is Map-Centric

http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/tcd123/2272715622 Neogeography is User-Centric

http://ﬂickr.com/photos/ayula/55908651/ Neogeography is User-Centric

Neogeography is User-Centric

metadata analysis cartography Common Criticisms

How to encourage providing metadata?

Wiki Sharing of Data http://www.hurricanewiki.org/wiki/ Hurricane_Ike_GIS_Resources

Traditional Dialog Boxes

Simple Forms

Explorable

Web-aligned

What about searching through metadata?

Folksonomy and Search

How can we trust amateurs to do analysis?

We’ve head this before...

Provide guided interfaces

Safe Routing http://www.ridethecity.com

MySociety House Price http://www.mysociety.org/2007/more-travel-maps/ vs. Travel Time

GoogleEarth > ArcGIS

“GoogleMap Fatigue”

“Red Dot Fever”

Open Data Open Source

EveryBlock http://everyblock.com

CloudMade

Thematic Visualization

GeoData Visualization

Thematic Styling

Classiﬁcation

Styling

Base Data

Comparative Analysis http://maker.geocommons.com/maps/839

Inspect the Data

usability interoperability participation New Areas

Usability User-Centric Context Interface

Story Telling

EverySquareMile

Language Support

Easy Interfaces http://wrp.geothings.net

Interoperability Standards Interfaces Collaboration http://ﬂickr.com/photos/alfr3do/7436142/

! Standards Organizations

The power and potential of de-facto standards.

GoogleEarth

Google Layers

KML http://code.google.com/apis/kml/ documentation/kmlreference.html

OGC KML 2.2 http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/kml/

<georss:point> + 45.256 -71.92 </georss:point> GeoRSS http://georss.org

USGS http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/catalogs/

Weather Mashups

Participation Collaboration Crowd-Source Volunteered Information http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/urbanwide/1409970010

GeoWeb2.0

What could you do with 100,000,000+ geotagged contributions? http://code.ﬂickr.com/blog/2009/02/04/100000000-geotagged-photos-plus/

Flickr Shapeﬁles

What could you do to monitor democracy? http://code.ﬂickr.com/blog/2009/02/04/100000000-geotagged-photos-plus/

How would you reach the last mile in a crisis? http://code.ﬂickr.com/blog/2009/02/04/100000000-geotagged-photos-plus/

What could you do with 90,000+ surveyors? http://code.ﬂickr.com/blog/2009/02/04/100000000-geotagged-photos-plus/

TomTom MapShare

Exponential Growth http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Stats

Thank you Andrew Turner andrew@fortiusone.com http://highearthorbit.com http://ﬂickr.com/photos/urbanwide/1409142545/

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