Citizen's perspective on the role of geospatial data to enable a Low Carbon Living; presented by Paul Georgie (GeoGeo) at the AGI Conference on Smart Energy at the Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation in February 2015.
Apologies if you don't get to watch the amazing animations (guess you had to be there!)
2. “Home is where
the heart is.”
Pliny The Elder
Conserving Heat, Smart Living Become A
Energy & Water. & Mobility. Geo-Digizen.
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3. Sensors For The Internet Take Control Of
Everything. Of Things. Your Energy Use.
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Retrofittin
g is good
for you.
4. Personalised Crowd-Sourcing It’s All In The
Geographies. Via Social Media. REST APIs.
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5. Citizens Check-In Rewards & Open Source,
To City Sights. Incentives. Not Open Data.
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How It’s Done.
The Story of FourSquare &
The MapBox REST API.
6. 24 Hours In Visualises The Shows How Society
San Francisco. Bigger Picture. & City Interact.
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7. Information Is
Beautiful.
(so stop hiding it)
Make It Useable, Engage Your One Platform,
Make It Fun. GeoDigizens. Multiple Agencies.
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8. Heat Mapping In
New York
(Why Tile Map Services Rock.)
Comparing Heat Helps Reduce Identifies Local Energy
Across The City. Heating Bills. Generation Opportunities.
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9. San Francisco
Solar Map
Potential Incoming Crowd-Sourced Provides Relevant
Solar Radiation. Local Installations. Non-Spatial Resources.
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10. Using Scotland’s
Web Map
Platforms
(and their ‘carto-clanger’
moments)The ‘G’ Is The Year Theme Your
Not Silent. Is 2015. Platforms.
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12. Edinburgh City
Council Atlas
The Crème De An Atlas Dude, Where’s
La Crème. For ‘Atlassians’. My Open Data?
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& the ArcGIS Server 10
13. Scotland’s Heat Map
Fantastic Enabling How Can We
Visualisation. Discussion. Contribute…?
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14. Glasgow City
Council
Ordnance Survey Encouraging The ‘G’
Developers Licence? ‘The Crowd’. Is Not Silent.
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Energy App & Map
15. Ordnance Survey Encouraging The ‘G’
Developers Licence? ‘The Crowd’. Is Not Silent.
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16. The Year Is
2015
Augmented & Immersive One Theme,
Virtual Reality. 3D Cities. One Platform.
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We Weren’t Promised Jetpacks
17. The Year Is
2015
Augmented & Immersive One Theme,
Virtual Reality. 3D Cities. One Platform.
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We Weren’t Promised Jetpacks
18. Citizens Are
Our Best
Geographers
The Open Source Citizens As The Need For 21st
Revolution. Sensors. Century Education.
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19. Community Improving Open Learning The Value
Mapping Works. Data Availability. Of Geographic Information.
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In Summary
1) Our Personal Geographies Paint The
Picture.
2) Beautiful Maps Are Engaging.
3) Citizens Are Our Best Geographers.
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Thank You For
Listening
facebook.com/geogeoglobal
paul@geogeoglobal.com
@paulsmind @wearespatial
www.geogeoglobal.com
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References
Smart Home Kit: littlebits.cc
NYC Heat Map: modi.mech.columbia.edu/resources/nycenergy
SF Solar Map: sfenergymap.org
SEWeb: environment.scotland.gov.uk
Edinburgh Atlas: edinburghcouncilmaps.info/atlas/cecatlas.html
Open Glasgow: map.glasgow.gov.uk
Scotland’s Heat Map: heatmap.scotland.gov.uk
Carse Mapping: carsesus.org
Map Visuals: Steven Kay
(flickr.com/photos/stevefaeembra)
Editor's Notes
Here today to give the citizens’ perspective on the use of geographic information for smart energy. Looking at (i) where we, as citizens, begin this journey; (ii) the latest map platforms that are paving the future for citizens use of GI; (iii) the role of citizens in mapping out energy use & developments
Monitor & Record
Use of clean / non-motorised transport; local economy.
Manage our own heat/energy use, establish the bigger picture of heat/energy use across the city. NEED FOR EDUCATION
*Control and monitor our homes from our phones! IMAGINE….
*Curtains, meters, temperature, motion, switches, IFTTT.org, Twitter!
*Sensors that help us monitor and mitigate the amount of heat and energy we use.
*Proprietary solutions available – no platform to gather / scrape information at a city-wide level.
*Each has unique personalised geography that captures how we interact with our cities. These combine to create a near-real time pulse of the city.
*Information already being recorded through apps which utilise the social web with a focus on the fun and games. A growing trend!
*Through REST APIs (for example), citizens can interact and contribute to commercialised datasets.
One of the first ‘check in’ apps based entirely on open source code.
The building blocks for successful city services?
Glasgow Life Example; Brasil & Waze.
One day in San Fransisco (according to FourSquare).
Paints the wide picture and ‘pulse of the city’ – critical mass of users & power of crowd-sourcing.
Enthuses & engages citizens to (i) learn more; and (ii) be part of the platform.
Need for energy information – both private/public – to be presented beautifully in a way that engages citizens
enable(s) NYC building owners to see whether their own building consumes more or less than what an average building with similar function and size would
At a household level, albeit modelled, but kickstarted the conversation amongst citizens and businesses.
Themed platform that juxtaposed quantitative data with qualitative information on solar.
Role of 3D UAV Data?
Explain 3 Common Carto-Clangers – nicest possible / most constructively critical way
Need for cartographers / geographers
Use the latest code libraries, infrastructure and tech
Qualitative / Quantitative – as well as crowd-sourcing through citizens
The good, the bad and the ugly.
Great amount of data available ‘on-demand’, although not very interactive.
Information Overload? Need to provide themes for Energy?
Still not ‘open data’, limiting citizens ability to use it in creative and locally important ways.
50 sq m – too coarse to be relevant for citizens; needs to be at a household level – requires modelling heat with building data.
Not interactive, so we can’t learn more about heat in the city, or energy installations.
Not for the colour-blind.
Example of getting the crowd involved in measuring energy use across the city.
What do we want?
2006: Burrough & McDonnell Textbook
Spring 2015 – Aimee begins mapping Scotland in 3D.
TOBLER?
Improve public use / understanding (time to share!)…why not teach GIS in schools? Education Scotland!
Open source lowering barriers of access.
Citizens inherently care more about keeping accurate, up-to-date GI.
Aligned to NSDI.
Sensors & Apps illuminate pulse of society’s energy use across the city.
Enthusing us with geo-visualisation can lead to further VGI
The underpinning reason to promote citizens’ production of VGI.