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Andrew Turner@ajturner

http://highearthorbit.com

Utilizing Place to Enable Action

Location Matters

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Action at a Distance

Action Localized

Proximity

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Common Context

Common Pivot Point

Integration of Multiple Actors

Government

NGO’s

Companies

Environment

History

Culture

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What’s Changing?

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GeoData Catalogs

Open GeoData http://geocommons.com

Open Government GeoData

Open Government GeoData

Open International GeoData

Open Linkable GeoData

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Open Semantic Data?

GeoWeb

Locative Devices

Ubiquitous Mobile Devices

unread POI’s 1000+

Broadband Connectivity

Broadband Connectivitystill not well distributed

Agriculture Trading via SMS

Open Source

Sharing

How Utilizing Place is Enabling Action

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OpenStreetMap

Community

Control your Future

Betwala Chawl, Mumbai

Provide Data

OpenStreetMap Palestine

Routing based on Nationality

US Apps for Democracy http://www.appsfordemocracy.org/

Locavore

Santa Barbara Fires

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MODIS

Google MyMaps

Twitter

http://hypercube.telascience.org/fire/

Hurricanes Katrinaand Rita

Damage Awareness Hurricane Katrina

Crisis Reporting

Hurricane Katrina

http://www.flickr.com/photos/culturesubculture/339185196/

Demolitions

Green Dot Map

Where is my House? Green Dot Map

By Green We Mean Bulldozer

Prove Yourself Viable

Broadmoor Green Dot Map

Newspapers Demolitions

from Newspaper Listings

http://www.cityofno.com/portal.aspx?tabid=118

to Spreadsheets

http://thinknola.com/permits/2008.htmlhttp://blogometer.com/post/editgrid-zero-to-six

to Maps

http://www.squanderedheritage.com/2008/01/13/google-maps/

to Blog Posts

http://jefflamb.wordpress.com/2008/09/22/1431-annette/

to Flickr Photos

Brought Together Demolitions

Mid-City Green Dot Map

Wiki Mid-City

Flip that Neighborhood Mid-City

Postpon

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3 year anniversary

Storm Tracking Hurricane Gustav

Hurricane Gustav

http://maker.geocommons.com

Iterate

Public Data

http://finder.geocommons.com

HurricaneWiki

CrescentMaps.org

Hurricane Ike

Ushahidi http://ushahidi.com

US Republican National Convention

Can this be applied to Democratic Monitoring?

API to Enable Action http://npr.org/votereport

Appropriate Interfaces

Sweepers

Feeds and API’s http://highearthorbit.com

Enable others to Act http://tvr.openideals.net http://plodt.com/votereport

Ushahidi http://ushahidi.com

Crowd-Sourced Filtering

SwiftRiver http://swiftapp.org

Some Issues

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Privacy

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Location Brokering

Precision, Accuracy, Veracity

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Precision

Verified Accuracy

Where to Begin?

http://highearthorbit.com/neogeography/

http://highearthorbit.com/presentations/

Free Swag

OpenStreetMapping Party @ Reboot tomorrow

Action

Thank you

Andrew Turnerhttp://highearthorbit.com