Minnesota GIS/LIS The Geospatial Revolution Peter Batty

The Geospatial Revolution Peter Batty Spatial Networking, Enspiria Solutions Minnesota GIS/LIS Conference October 22, 2009 1

Overview • Mainstream at last! • A real-time, multimedia view of the world • Crowdsourcing 2

GIS was a specialized backroom technology for many years 3

“1995: the year that GIS disappeared” Doug Seaborn AM/FM conference, 1992 4

Disruptive technology Functionality / lo gy performance c hno he d te bl is E sta Mainstream Market requirements lo gy chno e te ru ptiv Dis Time 5

Now much easier to include location data Free or cheap Location Geocoding map data tracking 6

Finally, geospatial data is just another data type ﬂickr.com/photos/26664862@N04/2499573972/ 7

The neogeographers Google Microsoft Open Source ... and more 8

Geo moving to the mainstream 1996 MapQuest 2005 Google Earth (Keyhole) 2005 Google Maps 9

Fun and cool Performance Ease of use API Continued innovation 10

3D buildings Birds eye view Photosynth SQL Server 11

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Strong in database Strong in web mapping Weaker on desktop Data improving fast Spans both “GIS” and “neogeo” spaces 13

“But these new systems are just simple web mapping, they’re not GIS” 14

Cartography Andy Allan, Cloudmade 15

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Data creation and maintenance Upcoming Mapzen editor Cloudmade 17

Data creation and maintenance “Walking Papers” for OpenStreetMap Stamen Design Here’s a print of Chinatown, San Francisco. 18

Geospatial analysis Stamen Design 19

Geospatial analysis FortiusOne / GeoCommons 20

Graphic showing “peace” Maybe hippies holding hands (Shouldn’t ﬁght neogeo vs GIS - all same problem) neogeography = GIS 21

Data sharing KML GML geoRSS WMS Shape geoJSON WFS Lightweight Heavyweight Mashups OGC Google Search Portals 22

“If a dataset available on the web is in a format that can't be indexed by Google, does it make a sound?” Kevin Wiebe Safe Software 23

Jason Birch City of Nanaimo <Picture of Jason> 24

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Google Maps now has parcels! 33

Computing in the cloud 34

A real-time, multimedia view of the world 35

September 7, 2009 36

October 19, 2009 37

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Microsoft Photosynth 42

Google Streetview 43

maps Microsoft Virtual Earth Manhattan 44

C3 Technologies Las Vegas 45

prototypegame.org Manhattan 46

Live Video Live 47

The Sensor Web Need a spatial context to make sense of all this 48

Location sensing UWB GPS Wi-Fi RFID Cell towers 49

New TomTom trafﬁc speed dataset derived from 600 billion speed readings from users real time data within 3 minutes ﬂickr.com/photos/rutlo/3164449930/ 50

location based services are real at last! 51

Smart Grid “The Internet brought to our electric system” Storage Renewable Energy Demand Response Intelligent devices and control systems 52

Will have the ability to know where everything is - and what is happening - all the time 53

Crowdsourcing 54

Web Web 1.0 2.0 publishing participation 55

Wikipedia 56

Hurricane Katrina New Orleans 57

Community generated data scipionus.com 58

Landgate Perth, Western Australia 59

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“The future is user created data” Google MapMaker Michael Jones, Google 61

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OpenStreetMap 63

December 3, 2007 Google OpenStreetMap July 7, 2009 64

Denver, CO Denver, CO USA USA “Mousetrap” junction of I-25 and I-70 Cape Royal Grand Canyon, AZ Cropston USA England 65

132,764 175,096 users 24m km of highways crazy 34m km of ways momentum!! OSM stats from May 2009 NAVTEQ had 18m km of highways in Dec 2007 ﬂickr.com/photos/pimpmasterjazz/2601898276/ 66

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What about quality? Dr Muki Haklay of UCL “OSM quality is beyond good enough, it is a product that can be used for a wide range of activities” Based on a detailed analysis http://tinyurl.com/mukiosm 68

Database 2007 data 69 countries 11m miles (18m km) of roads 18m points of interest People “Creating, maintaining and delivering a comprehensive, high quality map database is a Field force 700 multi-step, labor-intensive process. We Central production 270 currently employ over 270 employees in our centralized production facility and a global Technology 500 workforce of over 700 geographic analysts in 32 countries” Total 3349 Financial Revenue $853m (~€604m) Data creation & distribution costs $396m (~€280m) 69

Crowdsourcing is a paradigm shift for data creation ﬂickr.com/photos/jamescridland/613445810/ 70

In summary ... a wild ride ahead! 71

? peter.batty@spatialnetworking.com geothought.blogspot.com 72

Minnesota GIS/LIS The Geospatial Revolution Peter Batty

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