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My keynote presentation at the GITA Geospatial Solutions Conference in Dallas, April 2011. The talk is on the theme of simplicity and includes a look back at how things have changed over the lifetime of the GITA conference.
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Peter BattyUbisense
Simplicity
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AM/FM Conference
1993Orlando
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Intergraph hospitality suite
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Gordon Moore, Intel
Moore’s Law
Computers double in power every 18 months
210=1024212=4096
18 years agocomputers were
4000xless powerful
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In 1840s it took 5 months to travel 2000 miles from Missouri to California - 13 miles per day, ~0.5 miles per hour
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Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird
mph2400
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Denver to Dallas
640 miles
50 days 16 minutes
1993 2011
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Gordon Moore, Intel
Moore’s Law
26=64
18 years agocomputers were
4000xless powerful
1993
1984 9 more years
computers were
256,000xless powerful
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Space Shuttle17,000mph
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Giant tortoise0.17mph
Resting 2/3 of time0.06mph
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Denver to Dallas
640 miles
13 months 2 min 15s
1984 2011
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1993
IBM mainframes still dominated business computing
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1993
Cell phones were a bulky and expensive curiosity
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The first web browser, Mosaic, was released 1993
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GIS ran on UNIX workstations
1993
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Martin Newell
The Newell teapot, 1975
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1993The major GIS vendors were ...
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Location is now
Pervasive and Simplein consumer applications
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Disruptive technology
Functionality /performance
Time
Established technology
Disruptive technology
MainstreamMarketrequirements
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“But these new systems are just
simple web mapping, they’re not GIS”
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Applications
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Cartography
Andy Allan
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Data creation and maintenance
OpenStreetMap31
Geospatial analysis
Stamen Design
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Geospatial analysisGeoIQ / GeoCommons
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Huge growth in Free and Open Source Software
September 12-16
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What about detailed facility mapping?
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Google basemap with facilities
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Attribute data
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Street View gives extra info
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Autocomplete search
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“Enterprise mashups”
OutagesTrucksWMSCIS
Smart Grid
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Mobile
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Wireless broadband becoming pervasive
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Revolution in simple but powerful smartphones and tablets
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New generation workforce grew up with video games
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Pole #374109Wood, 30ftSwitch #1307Circuit #254, ABCInspected 2010/08/15
Augmented reality
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Video conferencing46
2007 Prius 2010 iPad!
$2000 $2.99 + $2.99/mo47
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Data48
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Google Street View
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Microsoft Street Slide
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Deployment
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The
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Cloud
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This is an old Google data center (2005)
Each container holdsservers1,160
This facility holds an estimated
150,000servers
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Google has an estimated 40…holding an estimated
data centers…
1 millionservers
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3 billionsearches per day
35,000searches per second
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2 billion videos per day
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100 millionmonthly users
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one zillion times more computer science
PhDs than your company or mine has
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AmazonGoogle
Your IT department
HUGEeconomies of scale
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Save
BIG!!
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but is it SECURE???
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There is a strong case that
your data
more secureis
in the cloud
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Fast train?
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Usability / simplicity
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Cloud
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changing natureof geospatial data
The
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Usability / simplicity
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[email protected]@pmbatty
More detail in talktomorrow at 2pm
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