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Of Data Silos, Geo-Babel and Other Malaises
1. Of Data Silos, Geo-Babel and Other Malaises Gary Gale, Director Ovi Places Registry gary.gale@nokia.com twitter.com/vicchi AGI GeoCommunity Stratford-upon-Avon, September 2010 52° 11' 33.5868”, -1° 42' 2.8758"
41. the second horseman - war the second horseman – licensing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:BritLibAddMS35166ApocalypseUnkFolio2SealRedHorse.jpg
42. “Everyone wants free, open, high quality geo data and no one wants to pay for it” “The (Geo) Data Dichotomy Dilemma” Gary’s Bloggage, November 2009 http://www.vicchi.org/2009/11/16/the-geo-data-dichotomy-dilemma/
43. proprietary and closed licensing Dru Bloomfield on Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/athomeinscottsdale/3279949186/
45. licensing isn’t always what it seems mofo on Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/yomofo/6681546/
46. some licenses are viral Ted Rheingold on Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/bmindful/113996138/
47. “As an OSM activist and commercial cartographer both, I find myself using OS OpenData more and more… yet have never even started using OSM data for commercial purposes” Richard Fairhurst commenting on “Cartographically Speaking; Data (Lots), Maps (Not So Much), Problems (Many)” Gary’s Bloggage, July 2010 http://www.vicchi.org/2010/07/30/cartographically-speaking-data-lots-maps-not-so-much-problems-many/
48. the third horseman - famine the third horseman – derivation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dieu_en_majesté.jpg
52. the inaccurate fifth horseman - pestilence the inaccurate fifth horseman – i’m here not there http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Durer_Revelation_Four_Riders.jpg
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54. take the four horseman of the geopocalypse http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Apocalypse_vasnetsov.jpg
60. some licenses will always be restrictive or closed Martin Cathrae on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/suckamc/2560335775/
61. and despite community licenses like Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/choose/results-one?license_code=by-sa&jurisdiction=&version=3.0&lang=en
62. and the open database license http://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/
63. more silos in the making Zoom Zoom on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/zoomzoom/304135268/
64. some people just don’t like licenses Simon Booth-Lucking on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/simonbooth/4791803924/
65. possible solution # 2 Leo Reynolds on Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/lwr/3992825492/
66. open database of places Tom Magliery on Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/mag3737/1914076277/
68. there may be trouble ahead Tobias C. Jensen on Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/toby87/3614063326/
69. “realizing this goal will take an eon in Internet time unless we see an unanticipated outbreak of altruism on the part of a data supplier” Tyler Bell, “Why check-ins and like buttons will change the local landscape”, O’Reilly Radar, May 2010 http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/05/check-ins-like-buttons-will-ch.html
70. and … Leo Reynolds on Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/lwr/32256861/
71. Chris Henden on Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/recurrence/6271033/
72. Howard Lake on Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/howardlake/3637581793/