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My keynote presentation at Minnesota GIS/LIS. Similar to my recent keynote at AGI GeoCommunity in the UK, but with some additional material (50 vs 30 minutes) and a few tweaks. Looks at trends in the geospatial industry in three areas: moving to the mainstream; a real time multimedia view of the world; and crowdsourcing.
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The Geospatial Revolution
Peter BattySpatial Networking, Enspiria Solutions
Minnesota GIS/LIS ConferenceOctober 22, 2009
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Overview
• Mainstream at last!
• A real-time, multimedia view of the world
• Crowdsourcing
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GIS was a specialized backroom technology for many years
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Doug SeabornAM/FM conference, 1992
“1995: the year that GIS disappeared”
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Disruptive technology
Functionality /performance
Time
Established technology
Disruptive technology
MainstreamMarketrequirements
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Now much easier to include location data
Free or cheap map data
Geocoding Location tracking
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Finally, geospatial data is just another data type
flickr.com/photos/26664862@N04/2499573972/7
The neogeographersGoogle
MicrosoftOpen Source... and more
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Geo moving to the mainstream
1996 MapQuest
2005 Google Earth (Keyhole)
2005 Google Maps
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Fun and coolPerformance
Ease of useAPI
Continued innovation
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3D buildingsBirds eye view
PhotosynthSQL Server
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Strong in databaseStrong in web mapping
Weaker on desktopData improving fast
Spans both “GIS” and “neogeo” spaces
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“But these new systems are just simple web mapping, they’re not GIS”
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Cartography
Andy Allan, Cloudmade
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Data creation and maintenance
Upcoming Mapzen editorCloudmade
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Here’s a print of Chinatown, San Francisco.
Instead of gargoyles, we’re using more appropriate bits of icon and text to recognize the corners.
Here you can see that someone has walked around Green Street and noted address information and a few businesses.
This is not information that you’d be able to get from a satellite image.
It’s also information that don’t really need a GPS for: the roads are already in place, but they need extra eye-level information.
Data creation and maintenance
“Walking Papers” for OpenStreetMap Stamen Design18
Geospatial analysis
Stamen Design
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Geospatial analysisFortiusOne / GeoCommons
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Graphic showing “peace” Maybe hippies holding hands
(Shouldn’t fight neogeo vs GIS - all same problem)
neogeography = GIS21
Data sharing
Lightweight Heavyweight
geoRSS
KML
geoJSON
GML
Shape
Mashups
Google Search
OGC
Portals
WMS
WFS
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“If a dataset available on the web is in a format that can't be indexed by Google, does it make a sound?”
Kevin WiebeSafe Software
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<Picture of Jason>
Jason BirchCity of Nanaimo
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Google Maps now has parcels!
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Computing in the cloud
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A real-time, multimedia view of the world
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September 7, 200936
October 19, 200937
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Microsoft Photosynth42
Google Streetview43
Microsoft Virtual Earth
Manhattan
maps
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C3 Technologies
Las Vegas
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prototypegame.org
Manhattan
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Live
VideoLive
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The Sensor Web
Need a spatial context to make sense of all this
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Location sensing
Cell towersWi-Fi
GPSRFID
UWB
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New TomTom traffic speed datasetderived from
600 billionspeed readings from users
flickr.com/photos/rutlo/3164449930/
real time data within
3 minutes
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location based servicesare real at last!
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Demand Response
Storage Renewable Energy
Intelligent devices and control systems
Smart Grid“The Internet brought to our electric system”
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Will have the ability to know where everything is - and what is happening - all the time
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Crowdsourcing
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Web
publishing participation
2.0Web1.0
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Wikipedia
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Hurricane KatrinaNew Orleans
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Community generated data
scipionus.com58
LandgatePerth, Western Australia
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Google MapMaker“The future is user
created data”Michael Jones, Google
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OpenStreetMap
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December 3, 2007
July 7, 2009
Google OpenStreetMap
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Cape RoyalGrand Canyon, AZ
USACropston
England
Denver, COUSA
Denver, COUSA
“Mousetrap” junction of I-25 and I-70
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momentum!!
132,764users
OSM stats from May 2009
24mkm of highways
34mkm of ways
NAVTEQ had 18m km of highways in Dec 2007
crazy
flickr.com/photos/pimpmasterjazz/2601898276/
175,096
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What about quality?
“OSM quality is beyond good enough, it is a product that can be used for a wide range of activities”
Dr Muki Haklay of UCL
Based on a detailed analysishttp://tinyurl.com/mukiosm
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2007 dataDatabase
69 countries11m miles (18m km) of roads18m points of interest
PeopleField force 700Central production 270Technology 500Total 3349
Financial Revenue $853m (~€604m) Data creation & distribution costs $396m (~€280m)
“Creating, maintaining and delivering a comprehensive, high quality map database is a
multi-step, labor-intensive process. We currently employ over 270 employees in our centralized production facility and a global
workforce of over 700 geographic analysts in 32 countries”
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Crowdsourcing is a paradigm shift for data creationflickr.com/photos/jamescridland/613445810/
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In summary ... a wild ride ahead!
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