How Neogeography   Andrew Turner
                       @ajturner
Killed GIS
“GIS is dead.”

                 Tim Bowden
                 Mapforge Geospatial
                 @ FOSS4G 2007
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birdfarm

Journalism
and how it died
London




Mumbai


 Realtime
Trends
Connected, Hyperlinked
Realtime
Two-way conversations
Personalized
Rise of the ‘amateur’ reporter
Syndication and Aggregation
Lack of innovation
Traditional Paradigms failed,
Traditional Paradigms failed,
                                and so did the industry
Not a Good
  Outcome
What’s happening in GIS
Peter talked about all the great technologies
Functionality
                Future
                                              GIS Server




                    OSGeo




                                                       Increasing
                                                       Accessibility
                                        GIS
                   Open Tools

                                Money + Time Cost


                Geospatial Trend
Open, Accessible Data
Adaptx vs. Walking Papers
Ordnance Survey vs. OpenStreetMap
MapInfo vs. GeoCommons
Traditional Stack
Complicated




                    www.cookbook.hlurb.gov.ph
flickr: vox



Problems with “GIS”
What is the key difference between
GIS and Neogeography?
GIS is Tool-Centric
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tcd123/2272715622




Neogeography is User-Centric
http://flickr.com/photos/ayula/55908651/




Neogeography is User-Centric
Neogeography is User-Centric
Neogeography
Neogeography



        is about
Neogeography



          is about


 personal interaction
Neogeography



          is about


 personal interaction


                        with place
“
The technology is bringing people closer to
to their worlds and empowering them to
define a future that reflects their values,
hopes and dreams.  ”
“
The technology is bringing people closer to
to their worlds and empowering them to
define a future that reflects their values,
hopes and dreams.  ”
                         Jack Dangermond
The New Compass
    560 million GPS enabled
          handsets by 2012
New Paradigms
Media & Entertainment




Location-Based    Going on          Locative
   Games          Vacation            Art
Mobile Consumers




 Social       Augmented       Banking
Networks        Reality
Personal Analytics




Where I     Government         Hyperlocal
 Live       Engagement           News
GIS is a commodity. Part of the infrastructure.
How to alter the future-past
How ‘GISers’ see ‘neogeographers’




flickr: diskostu
How ‘neogeographers’ see ‘GISers’
How ‘neogeographers’ see ‘GISers’




                                    they don’t
We’re from the Internet...
An Allegory of a Man
Neural Network Learning Applied to Spacecraft
Attitude Dynamics Control Systems
GOCE Spacecraft - Gravity field and steady-state
Ocean Circulation Explorer
Convergence of Blogs, Digital Media, Consumer
GPS and Mobile, Internet enabled devices
Explain it in
meaningful terms
Trip Mapping
Friend Finding
House Planning
GeoGenealogy
Build tools and
components
                  GeoRSS

                  KML
Build
Easy to Use
Interfaces
Where the people are
going
Reach out into their communities.
Reach out into their communities.   Engage.
Offer insight and expertise.
Offer insight and expertise.   Don’t lecture.
Collaborate.
Collaborate.   Build.
“We” need to work together




Gartner: July 2009
“We” need to work together




Gartner: July 2009
“We” need to work together




Gartner: July 2009
“We” need to work together
     “We” means more than the people in this audience




Gartner: July 2009
There are a lot of problems we need to solve
Metadata - Findability
Portability - Archiving
flickr:cardopoli




                  Privacy - Obfuscation
Accuracy, Precision - Reliability, Quality
flickr: smb_flickr


Conflation - Linked Data
Interaction - Cartography
Lets change the future
Plenary Session:

“How citizens connected with
 place to change the world.”
Let’s Build a New
Future Together
Andrew Turner - @ajturner
andrew@fortiusone.com
http://highearthorbit.com

How Neogeography Killed GIS