RMIUG Geo talk

Where is everything?The Geoweb TsunamiDuncan McCallDuncan@dcmccall.com

Overview / Summary
Introduction
What is the geoweb?
Local 2.0
Where is all this going?

Who am I?
Business / technical background
Career mostly focused on internet / tech
Lots of startup hell / happiness
Passion for location & the geoweb

My geoweb epiphany…
?

Must be an technology solution?
+

+
= ??

Location Aware Device Explosion
The Social
Internet
Mapping &
Local Info
‘geoweb’
User Generated Content

What is this “Geoweb”?

Mapping & GIS
Cartography / Mapping
GIS (Geographic Information Systems)

Online Evolution of Mapping?

Breakthrough? 2005
+
API

“Crowdsourcing”

Crowdsourcing in the Geoweb

Geosearch

Geoweb - crowdsourcing
OpenStreetMap

Google
OpenStreetMap
December 3, 2007
July 7, 2009

OSM – Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Open Street Map – A year in edits..

Great migration underway…
Analog to Digital
Offline to Online

Mobile?

Augmented reality?

The ones to watch?

What about the future?

…always a tough call
Flying cars (you wish)
Renewable energy (check back in 10yrs)
RFID (almost finally!)
1 to 1 personalization (not really)
The geoweb (it’s here!)

The Sensor Web
Need a spatial context to make sense of all this

The Location aware Web
GPS
UWB
RFID
Wi-Fi
Cell towers

The Realtime Web
Blogging!
Geotagging!
Buzzing!
Checking in!
Updating!
Tweeting!
Local!
News!

Will have the ability to know where everything is - and what is happening - all the time

In summary ... a wild ride ahead!

Thank you!
Duncan McCallDuncan@dcmccall.com

RMIUG Geo talk

by Duncan McCall on Mar 23, 2010

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