Lessons Learned from Neogeography Applied to GIS
Andrew [email protected]://highearthorbit.com
Presented at theNorth Carolina GIS Conference
February 20, 2009 in Raleigh, NC
Who am I?
The path to becoming a neogeographer
Who are the Neogeographers?
http://flickr.com/photos/x180/2494170626/
How did we get here?
Cartographic Evolution
GeoWeb
GoogleMaps & GoogleEarthMashupsGeolocated Mobile Devices
Locative Media
Happiness MapsHeadMap ManifestoMapping Hacks
Mobile Devices
CheapBroadbandOpen GPS
Web Mapping
Planning
Navigation
Mapping Renaissance
Storytelling
Geospatial Trend
Cost
Func
tiona
lity
Money + Time
GIS
GIS Server
Open Tools
OSGeo
Future
IncreasingAccessibility
What is the key difference between GIS and Neogeography?
GIS is Map-Centric
Neogeography is User-Centric
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tcd123/2272715622
Neogeography is User-Centric
http://flickr.com/photos/ayula/55908651/
Neogeography is User-Centric
metadata analysis cartography
Common Criticisms
metadata analysis cartography
Common Criticisms
How to encourage providing metadata?
http://www.hurricanewiki.org/wiki/Hurricane_Ike_GIS_Resources
Wiki Sharing of Data
Traditional Dialog Boxes
Simple Forms
Explorable
Web-aligned
What about searching through metadata?
Folksonomy and Search
metadata analysis cartography
Common Criticisms
How can we trust amateurs to do analysis?
We’ve head this before...
Provide guided interfaces
MySociety House Price vs. Travel Time
http://www.mysociety.org/2007/more-travel-maps/
GoogleEarth > ArcGIS
metadata analysis cartography
Common Criticisms
“GoogleMap Fatigue”
“Red Dot Fever”
Open DataOpen Source
CloudMade
Thematic Visualization
GeoData Visualization
Thematic Styling
Classification
Styling
Base Data
Comparative Analysis http://maker.geocommons.com/maps/839
Inspect the Data
usability interoperability participation
New Areas
Usability
User-CentricContextInterface
Story Telling
EverySquareMile
Language Support
Interoperability
StandardsInterfacesCollaboration
http://flickr.com/photos/alfr3do/7436142/
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Standards Organizations
The power and potential of de-facto standards.
GoogleEarth
Google Layers
KML
http://code.google.com/apis/kml/documentation/kmlreference.html
OGC KML 2.2 http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/kml/
GeoRSS http://georss.org
<georss:point>45.256 -71.92
</georss:point>+
USGS http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/catalogs/
Weather Mashups
Participation
CollaborationCrowd-SourceVolunteered Information
http://www.flickr.com/photos/urbanwide/1409970010
GeoWeb2.0
What could you do with 100,000,000+ geotagged contributions?
http://code.flickr.com/blog/2009/02/04/100000000-geotagged-photos-plus/
Flickr Shapefiles
What could you do to monitor democracy?
http://code.flickr.com/blog/2009/02/04/100000000-geotagged-photos-plus/
How would you reach the last mile in a crisis?
http://code.flickr.com/blog/2009/02/04/100000000-geotagged-photos-plus/
What could you do with 90,000+ surveyors?
http://code.flickr.com/blog/2009/02/04/100000000-geotagged-photos-plus/
TomTom MapShare
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/StatsExponential Growth
Thank you
Andrew [email protected]://highearthorbit.com
http://flickr.com/photos/urbanwide/1409142545/
