Of Data Silos, Geo-Babel & Other Geo Malaises

Of Data Silos, Geo-Babel & Other Geo Malaises
Gary Gale, Director Ovi Places Registry
gary.gale@nokia.com
twitter.com/vicchi
The Location Business Summit USA
San Jose, CA, September 2010
37.330123, -121.891079

KELLYLEEBARRETT on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/kellylee/4177529745/

Gary Gale on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/vicchi/4414198544/

Changua Coast Conservation Action on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/waders/3177090710/

Nad on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/nad/386051891/

mapping and locating ourselves and the world
Boson Nova on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/bosonnova/3250298799/

??? bc - smoke signals
Newsbie Pix on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/newsbiepix/4235304729/

3200 bc – celestial navigation
ohad* on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/ohadby/4119933035/

1000 bc – homing pigeons
Adelaide Archivist on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/adelaide_archivist/3172908079/

1100 bc – magnetic compass
Sebastian Niedlicj (Grabthar) on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/42311564@N00/2292118012/

1300 – mappa mundi
elefthis1 on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/61288890@N00/2141540887/

circa 1600
normanbleventhalmapcenter on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/normanbleventhalmapcenter/2674855383/

caveman on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/caveman_92223/3185534518/

perpetualplum on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/perpetualplum/2866054138/

1900 – radio triangulation
Happychopper on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/happychopper/345096825/

1960 - gps
John_Dulaneyon Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/15046584@N08/1562794445/

1990 – portable gps
2Tales on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/stigster/3761714132/

2000 – “smart” phones

2009 – LBS apps
20

Sasha Wolff on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sashawolff/3228711025/

but in 2010 … where’s the map?
Leo Reynolds on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lwr/12364944/

data, data, everywhere
Dunechaseron Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/dunechaser/163959411/

bionicteaching on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/bionicteaching/2920562020/

Chris Torres on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/ctorresphoto/3427060086/

the four horseman of the geopocalypse
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Apocalypse_vasnetsov.jpg

the first horseman – data silos
the first horseman - pestilence
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:BambergApocalypseFolio014rFirstHorseman.JPG

international commercial data

national commercial and open data

international crowd-sourced open data

national open data

specialist and niche commercial data

social network crowd-sourced data

geo-fenced location services and data

(data) silos (lots of them)
Zoom Zoom on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/zoomzoom/304135268/

(not so) unique identifiers
sporkwrapper on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/sporkwrapper/264250038/

!=
!=
!=
!= 37.330123, -121.891079

the second horseman - war
the second horseman – licensing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:BritLibAddMS35166ApocalypseUnkFolio2SealRedHorse.jpg

“Everyone wants free,
open, high quality geo
data and no one wants
to pay for it”
“The (Geo) Data Dichotomy Dilemma”
Gary’s Bloggage, November 2009
http://www.vicchi.org/2009/11/16/the-geo-data-dichotomy-dilemma/

proprietary and closed licensing
Dru Bloomfield on Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/athomeinscottsdale/3279949186/

open licensing
mafleen on Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/mafleen/4858606716/

licensing isn’t always what it seems
mofo on Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/yomofo/6681546/

some licenses are viral
Ted Rheingold on Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/bmindful/113996138/

“As an OSM activist and commercial
cartographer both, I find myself
using OS OpenData more and
more… yet have never even started
using OSM data for commercial
purposes”
Richard Fairhurst commenting on “Cartographically Speaking; Data (Lots), Maps (Not So Much),
Problems (Many)”
Gary’s Bloggage, July 2010
http://www.vicchi.org/2010/07/30/cartographically-speaking-data-lots-maps-not-so-much-problems-many/

the third horseman - famine
the third horseman – derivation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dieu_en_majesté.jpg

http://cheezburger.com/View/3944760320

the fourth horseman – co-mingling
the fourth horseman - death
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:BambergApocalypseFolio016rForthHorseman.JPG

co-mingling
Zoom MadreMia!!! on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/rebeccacowser/3913497067/

the inaccurate fifth horseman - pestilence
the inaccurate fifth horseman – i’m here not there
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Durer_Revelation_Four_Riders.jpg

take the four horseman of the geopocalypse
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Apocalypse_vasnetsov.jpg

urbanmkr on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/urbanmkr/237252443/

… and we get …
Terry Hart on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/terryhart/4458595395/

geo-babel
Yufu Lin on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/yufujamar/3383400631/

possible solution # 1
David on Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/cdell/548548453/

license harmonization
William Murphy on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/infomatique/3959890868/

some licenses will always be restrictive or closed
Martin Cathrae on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/suckamc/2560335775/

and despite community licenses like Creative Commons
http://creativecommons.org/choose/results-one?license_code=by-sa&jurisdiction=&version=3.0&lang=en

and the open database license
http://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/

more silos in the making
Zoom Zoom on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/zoomzoom/304135268/

some people just don’t like licenses
Simon Booth-Lucking on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/simonbooth/4791803924/

Leo Reynolds on Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/lwr/3992825492/

open database of places
Tom Magliery on Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/mag3737/1914076277/

http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/17/open-database-places/

there may be trouble ahead
Tobias C. Jensen on Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/toby87/3614063326/

“realizing this goal will take an eon
in Internet time unless we see an
unanticipated outbreak of altruism
on the part of a data supplier”
Tyler Bell, “Why check-ins and like buttons will change the local
landscape”, O’Reilly Radar, May 2010
http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/05/check-ins-like-buttons-will-ch.html

and …
Leo Reynolds on Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/lwr/32256861/

Chris Henden on Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/recurrence/6271033/

Howard Lake on Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/howardlake/3637581793/

N-Plex?

sn0rk on Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/sn0rk/4544801421/

londonohio

londonontario

london united kingdom

no news-stands?
Pirate Alice on Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/piratealice/2056491590/

easy and orange?
Christopher Doyle on Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/irishflyguy/2425063737/

Chris Henden on Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/recurrence/6271033/

Mario Kilngemann Reynolds on Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/quasimondo/2358017289/

open database of identifiers
Elizabeth Skene on Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/skene/3874882162/

Ovi Place
Facebook Place
Long/Lat
Foursquare
WOEID
nrivera on Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/nrivera/3158814786/

Alex Proimos on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/proimos/4199675334/

The Big Mr on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigmr/2653809227/

Location Market Value
2010 - $3.6B
2013 - $9.4B
Source: Strategy Analytics, September 2010

Thank you
Gary Gale, Director Ovi Places Registry
gary.gale@nokia.com
twitter.com/vicchi

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