welcome to the world of the geo-data silo
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"Welcome To The World Of The Geo-Data Silo"; presented at the Society Of Cartographers Summer School 2010 on 10th. September 2010 in Manchester, UK.TRANSCRIPT
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Welcome To The World Of The Geo-Data SiloGary Gale, Director Ovi Places [email protected] of Cartographers Summer School Manchester, September 201053.443375,-2.214174
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KELLYLEEBARRETT on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/kellylee/4177529745/
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Gary Gale on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/vicchi/4414198544/
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Changua Coast Conservation Action on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/waders/3177090710/
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Nad on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/nad/386051891/
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Boson Nova on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/bosonnova/3250298799/
mapping and locating ourselves and the world
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Newsbie Pix on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/newsbiepix/4235304729/
??? bc - smoke signals
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ohad* on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/ohadby/4119933035/
3200 bc – celestial navigation
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Adelaide Archivist on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/adelaide_archivist/3172908079/
1000 bc – homing pigeons
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Sebastian Niedlicj (Grabthar) on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/42311564@N00/2292118012/
1100 bc – magnetic compass
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elefthis1 on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/61288890@N00/2141540887/
1300 – mappa mundi
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normanbleventhalmapcenter on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/normanbleventhalmapcenter/2674855383/
circa 1600
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caveman on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/caveman_92223/3185534518/
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perpetualplum on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/perpetualplum/2866054138/
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Happychopper on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/happychopper/345096825/
1900 – radio triangulation
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17John_Dulaney on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/15046584@N08/1562794445/
1960 - gps
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182Tales on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/stigster/3761714132/
1990 – portable gps
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2000 – “smart” phones
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2009 – LBS apps
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2010 – But Where’s The Map?
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25Dunechaser on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/dunechaser/163959411/
data, data, everywhere
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26bionicteaching on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/bionicteaching/2920562020/
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27Chris Torres on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/ctorresphoto/3427060086/
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Apocalypse_vasnetsov.jpg
the four horseman of the geopocalypse
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:BambergApocalypseFolio014rFirstHorseman.JPG
the first horseman - pestilencethe first horseman – data silos
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international commercial data
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national commercial and open data
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international crowd-sourced open data
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national open data
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specialist and niche commercial data
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social network crowd-sourced data
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36Zoom Zoom on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/zoomzoom/304135268/
(data) silos (lots of them)
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37sporkwrapper on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/sporkwrapper/264250038/
(not so) unique identifiers
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:BritLibAddMS35166ApocalypseUnkFolio2SealRedHorse.jpg
the second horseman - warthe second horseman – licensing
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“Everyone wants free,open, high quality geodata and no one wantsto pay for it”
“The (Geo) Data Dichotomy Dilemma”Gary’s Bloggage, November 2009http://www.vicchi.org/2009/11/16/the-geo-data-dichotomy-dilemma/
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Dru Bloomfield on Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/athomeinscottsdale/3279949186/
proprietary and closed licensing
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mafleen on Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/mafleen/4858606716/
open licensing
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mofo on Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/yomofo/6681546/
licensing isn’t always what it seems
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Ted Rheingold on Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/bmindful/113996138/
some licenses are viral
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“As an OSM activist and commercialcartographer both, I find myselfusing OS OpenData more andmore… yet have never even startedusing OSM data for commercialpurposes”
Richard Fairhurst commenting on “Cartographically Speaking; Data (Lots), Maps (Not So Much),Problems (Many)”Gary’s Bloggage, July 2010http://www.vicchi.org/2010/07/30/cartographically-speaking-data-lots-maps-not-so-much-problems-many/
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dieu_en_majesté.jpg
the third horseman - faminethe third horseman – derivation
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http://cheezburger.com/View/3944760320
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:BambergApocalypseFolio016rForthHorseman.JPG
the fourth horseman - deaththe fourth horseman – co-mingling
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48Zoom MadreMia!!! on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/rebeccacowser/3913497067/
co-mingling
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Durer_Revelation_Four_Riders.jpg
the inaccurate fifth horseman - pestilencethe inaccurate fifth horseman – i’m here not there
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Yufu Lin on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/yufujamar/3383400631/
geo-babel
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possible solution # 1
David on Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/cdell/548548453/
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William Murphy on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/infomatique/3959890868/
license harmonization
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Martin Cathrae on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/suckamc/2560335775/
some licenses will always be restrictive or closed
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and despite community licenses like Creative Commons
http://creativecommons.org/choose/results-one?license_code=by-sa&jurisdiction=&version=3.0&lang=en
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and the open database license
http://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/
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58Zoom Zoom on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/zoomzoom/304135268/
more silos in the making
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Simon Booth-Lucking on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/simonbooth/4791803924/
some people just don’t like licenses
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possible solution # 2
Leo Reynolds on Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/lwr/3992825492/
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open database of places
Tom Magliery on Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/mag3737/1914076277/
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http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/17/open-database-places/
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there may be trouble ahead
Tobias C. Jensen on Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/toby87/3614063326/
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“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 locallandscape”, O’Reilly Radar, May 2010http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/05/check-ins-like-buttons-will-ch.html
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and …
Leo Reynolds on Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/lwr/32256861/
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Chris Henden on Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/recurrence/6271033/
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N-Plex?
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london ohio
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london ontario
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london united kingdom
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no news-stands?
Pirate Alice on Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/piratealice/2056491590/
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easy and orange?
Christopher Doyle on Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/irishflyguy/2425063737/
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Chris Henden on Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/recurrence/6271033/
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possible solution # 3
Mario Kilngemann Reynolds on Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/quasimondo/2358017289/
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open database of identifiers
Elizabeth Skene on Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/skene/3874882162/
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nrivera on Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/nrivera/3158814786/
Ovi Place
Facebook Place
Long/Lat
Foursquare
WOEID