"Welcome To The World Of The Geo-Data Silo"; presented at the Society Of Cartographers Summer School 2010 on 10th. September 2010 in Manchester, UK.

1. Welcome To The World Of The Geo-Data Silo Gary Gale, Director Ovi Places Registry gary.gale@nokia.com Society of Cartographers Summer School Manchester, September 2010 53.443375,-2.214174

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. 3200 bc – celestial navigation ohad* on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/ohadby/4119933035/

10. 1000 bc – homing pigeons Adelaide Archivist on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/adelaide_archivist/3172908079/

11. 1100 bc – magnetic compass Sebastian Niedlicj (Grabthar) on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/42311564@N00/2292118012/

12. 1300 – mappa mundi elefthis1 on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/61288890@N00/2141540887/

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

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

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

16. 1900 – radio triangulation Happychopper on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/happychopper/345096825/

17. 1960 - gps John_Dulaneyon Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/15046584@N08/1562794445/

18. 1990 – portable gps 2Tales on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/stigster/3761714132/

19. 2000 – “smart” phones

20. 2009 – LBS apps 20

21. 2010 – But Where’s The Map?

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

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

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

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

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

30. international commercial data

31. national commercial and open data

32. international crowd-sourced open data

33. national open data

34. specialist and niche commercial data

35. social network crowd-sourced data

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

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

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

39. “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/

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

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

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

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

44. “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/

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

46. http://cheezburger.com/View/3944760320

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

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

49. 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

60. possible solution # 2 Leo Reynolds on Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/lwr/3992825492/

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

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

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

64. “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

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

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

67. N-Plex?

69. londonohio

70. londonontario

71. london united kingdom

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

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

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

75. possible solution # 3 Mario Kilngemann Reynolds on Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/quasimondo/2358017289/

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

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

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