The document discusses the potential for "the crowd and the cloud" to represent the next evolutionary step in geo-information processing. It first introduces three disruptive innovations - mobile social internet, cloud computing, and the internet of things. It then discusses the crowd, who they are, what they want, and what they do geospatially. The cloud is defined, including different deployment and service models. Past research is reviewed on topics like automatic image geo-tagging and using social media for crisis management. Future research themes are proposed around new sources and modes of geo-information production, new processing methods, improving interoperability, and applications.