1. 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
3. GIS Caste System Spatial Data Infrastructures For GIS Professionals Public Participation GIS Professionals + Burakumin Volunteered Geographic Information Just the Burakumin
43. 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
44. 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
45. Sean Gorman, CEO and Founder [email_address] 703.647.2151 Thank You!
Editor's Notes
Make the tool come to the user, not the other way around. Technology is powerful and should do most of the heavy lifting for you.
Data that is in a system isn’t useful if you can’t find it – or if it’s on some other system. GeoIQ Enterprise can search and retrieve data from other appliances, GeoCommons Community, or hundreds of other data repositories. Don’t keep all your data in a centralized system – but push it to all your centers and provide it at your users fingertips
Simply putting dots on a map – where are my stores? Where are my customers?