The document discusses the relationship between volunteered geographic information (VGI) and geographic information systems (GIS). It notes that VGI, which comes from non-experts, is increasingly becoming the de facto standard over data from GIS professionals. The document also outlines strategies for making GIS tools more inclusive of VGI, such as supporting multiple data formats, incentivizing participation, and providing training materials.

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

2. Learning from the Unwashed Masses

3. GIS Caste System Spatial Data Infrastructures For GIS Professionals Public Participation GIS Professionals + Burakumin Volunteered Geographic Information Just the Burakumin

4. GIS Caste System Data Discovery Collaboration Data Creation

5. SDI’s – Data discovery tools

6. Mostly Metadata Discovery Tools

7. Taking You to Data Download Sites

8. Allow the Community to Participate

9. Where does VGI fit into all of this?

10. Caste systems don’t work well for disasters?

11. Courtesy of John Crowley STAR-TIDES

12. Courtesy of John Crowley STAR-TIDES

13. FortiusOne Poprietary Information Courtesy of John Crowley STAR-TIDES

14. Courtesy of John Crowley STAR-TIDES

15. When Unofficial Source Becomes the De Facto Standard FortiusOne Proprietary Information

16. GIS = 1,000,000 users in 300,000 organizations VGI = 10,000,000 Google My Maps created 600,000,000 Google Earth downloads 500,000,000 indexed KML/KMZ files 250,000 OpenStreetMap registered users 1,000,000 FourSquare registered users 1,300,000 GeoCommons data downloads

17. Is the question “what role does VGI play in GIS” or “what role does GIS play in VGI”?

18. Does the user care and are we making artificial distinctions?

19. The case of GeoCommons

20. Government Citizens NGO’s

21. How is data collected?

22. FortiusOne Proprietary Information

23. Support a variety of formats KML Shapefile CSV (Excel) GeoRSS Documents Database

24. Georeferencing data

26. Universal, Federated Search, and Retrieval

27. How is data verified?

28. Metadata collection

29. Metadata based archiving

30. Dynamic Metadata Integration

31. How is participation incentivized?

32. Cartographic Visualization

33. Thematic Visualization

34. Thematic Visualization

35. Geospatial Analysis

36. Dynamic Data Feeds

37. Temporal Visualization/Analysis

38. How do we provide training?

39. Interactive video based tutorials

40. User manuals

41. Contextual help

42. How many people participate?

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!