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

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

metadata analysis cartography
Common Criticisms

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

metadata analysis cartography
Common Criticisms

“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/