Utilizing Place to enable Action - lessons learned about the importance of place, enabling individuals and communities to mobilize and enact change, and the role of technology in mediating these actions.

1. Loca(c)tion
Utilizing Place to Enable Action
Andrew Turner
@ajturner
http://highearthorbit.com

2. Location Matters
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kokogiak/8777595

3. Action at a Distance

4. Action Localized

5. Proximity
http://www.flickr.com/photos/matador_snaps/339760890/

6. Common Context

7. Common Pivot Point

8. Government
NGO’s
Companies
Integration of Multiple Actors Environment
History
Culture
...

9. What’s Changing?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/articnomad/29552301

10. GeoData Catalogs

11. Open GeoData http://geocommons.com

12. Open Government GeoData

13. Open Government GeoData

14. Open International GeoData

15. <georss:point>
+ 45.256 -71.92
</georss:point>
Open Linkable GeoData

16. Open Semantic Data?

17. GeoWeb

20. Locative Devices

21. Ubiquitous Mobile Devices

22. unread POI’s 1000+

23. Broadband Connectivity

24. Broadband Connectivity
still not well distributed

25. Agriculture Trading via SMS

26. Open Source

27. Sharing

28. How Utilizing Place is Enabling Action
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ivanomak/559601119

29. OpenStreetMap

30. Community

31. Control your Future
Betwala Chawl, Mumbai

32. Provide Data
OpenStreetMap Palestine

33. Routing based on
Nationality

37. US Apps for Democracy http://www.appsfordemocracy.org/

39. Locavore

44. Santa Barbara Fires
http://flickr.com/photos/fielddan/1752897034/

45. MODIS

46. Google MyMaps

47. Twitter

49. http://hypercube.telascience.org/fire/

50. Hurricanes Katrina
and Rita

51. Damage Awareness Hurricane Katrina

52. Crisis Reporting
Hurricane Katrina

53. Demolitions
http://www.flickr.com/photos/culturesubculture/339185196/

54. Green Dot Map

55. Prove Yourself Viable
By Green We Mean Bulldozer
Where is my House? Green Dot Map

56. Broadmoor Green Dot Map

57. Newspapers Demolitions

58. from Newspaper Listings
http://www.cityofno.com/portal.aspx?tabid=118

59. to Spreadsheets
http://thinknola.com/permits/2008.html
http://blogometer.com/post/editgrid-zero-to-six

60. to Maps
http://www.squanderedheritage.com/2008/01/13/google-maps/

61. to Blog Posts
http://jefflamb.wordpress.com/2008/09/22/1431-annette/

62. to Flickr Photos

63. Brought Together Demolitions

64. Mid-City Green Dot Map

65. Wiki Mid-City

66. Flip that Neighborhood Mid-City

67. n e d
tp o
P o s
3 year anniversary

68. Storm Tracking Hurricane Gustav

69. Hurricane Gustav
http://maker.geocommons.com

70. Iterate

71. Public Data
http://finder.geocommons.com

72. HurricaneWiki

73. CrescentMaps.org

74. Hurricane Ike

75. Ushahidi http://ushahidi.com

76. US Republican National
Convention

77. Can this be applied to Democratic Monitoring?

79. API to Enable Action http://npr.org/votereport

80. Appropriate Interfaces

81. Sweepers

82. Feeds and API’s http://highearthorbit.com

83. Enable others to Act http://tvr.openideals.net
http://plodt.com/votereport

84. Ushahidi http://ushahidi.com

85. Crowd-Sourced
Filtering

86. SwiftRiver http://swiftapp.org

87. Some Issues
http://www.flickr.com/photos/chicanerii/3653482696

88. Privacy
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fallwithme/3630943192

89. Location Brokering

94. 58
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Precision, Accuracy, Veracity

95. Precision

96. Verified Accuracy

97. Where to Begin?

98. http://highearthorbit.com/neogeography/
http://highearthorbit.com/presentations/
Free Swag

99. OpenStreetMapping Party @ Reboot tomorrow
Action

100. Thank you
Andrew Turner
http://highearthorbit.com