Disparate open data across different counties and organizations leads to data silos and inconsistent formats that are difficult to work with at scale. As more data becomes available, there will be opportunities for geospatial analysts ("geo boffins") to automate and augment work by connecting and making sense of vast amounts of geospatial data from a variety of sources over time. The future holds great potential for geo boffins to utilize new sources of open data.

1. Disparate data, technology fiefdoms
and the rise of the geo boffin!
Will Cadell
>sparkgeo.com

2. > sparkgeo.com
Open data is awesome
(give yourselves a clap, come on!)

3. .
Prince
George
> sparkgeo.com

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5. Do we really care about the software?
> sparkgeo.com

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There are estimated to be
14,308,667,560 pictures of
cats on the internet
There are only thought to
be 220,000,000 domestic
cats in the world
So, every cat has had 65
pictures of it posted on the
web? Right?

8. > sparkgeo.com
In California there are 58 counties.
> 39 of them have readily available “open data”
> 2100 data sources
> 53 (avg) data sources per publishing county
> 10 different data formats
> 2% invalid geometry

9. > sparkgeo.com

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The future: automate all the things

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The future: augment all the things

12. > sparkgeo.com
road data * every publishing organization * time
==
a ludicrous amount of geospatial work

13. > sparkgeo.com
Hooray, for us geo boffins!