AAG GeoWeb/SDI - The GIS Caste System

Geoenabling the Masses: Practical Lessons from the Field Bringing Geography to the Burakumin AAG 2010 , Washington DC Convergence in the GeoWeb: Volunteered geographic information, spatial data infrastructures, and public participation GIS II Sean P. Gorman PhD. FortiusOne

Learning from the Unwashed Masses

GIS Caste System Spatial Data Infrastructures For GIS Professionals Public Participation GIS Professionals + Burakumin Volunteered Geographic Information Just the Burakumin

GIS Caste System Data Discovery Collaboration Data Creation

SDI’s – Data discovery tools

Mostly Metadata Discovery Tools

Taking You to Data Download Sites

Allow the Community to Participate

Where does VGI fit into all of this?

Caste systems don’t work well for disasters?

Courtesy of John Crowley STAR-TIDES

FortiusOne Poprietary Information Courtesy of John Crowley STAR-TIDES

Courtesy of John Crowley STAR-TIDES

When Unofficial Source Becomes the De Facto Standard FortiusOne Proprietary Information

GIS = 1,000,000 users in 300,000 organizations VGI = 10,000,000 Google My Maps created 600,000,000 Google Earth downloads 500,000,000 indexed KML/KMZ files 250,000 OpenStreetMap registered users 1,000,000 FourSquare registered users 1,300,000 GeoCommons data downloads

Is the question “what role does VGI play in GIS” or “what role does GIS play in VGI”?

Does the user care and are we making artificial distinctions?

The case of GeoCommons

Government Citizens NGO’s

How is data collected?

FortiusOne Proprietary Information

Support a variety of formats KML Shapefile CSV (Excel) GeoRSS Documents Database

Georeferencing data

Universal, Federated Search, and Retrieval

How is data verified?

Metadata collection

Metadata based archiving

Dynamic Metadata Integration

How is participation incentivized?

Cartographic Visualization

Thematic Visualization

Geospatial Analysis

Dynamic Data Feeds

Temporal Visualization/Analysis

How do we provide training?

Interactive video based tutorials

User manuals

Contextual help

How many people participate?

2008 2009 2010 Total Registered Users 3,084 10,433 12,563 Total Datasets 7,256 15,922 25,651 Total Dataset Downloads 258,102 1,024,707 1,286,333

36.4 % downloaded as CSV 60.2 % downloaded as KML 3.4 % downloaded as Shapefile (based on the most recent 262,758 downloads/ since Sept 21, 2009) Data Demographics

Sean Gorman, CEO and Founder [email_address] 703.647.2151 Thank You!

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