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Lessons Learned from Neogeography
Applied to GIS
Andrew Turner                               Presented at the
andrew@fortiusone.com         North Carolina GIS Conference
http://highearthorbit.com   February 20, 2009 in Raleigh, NC
Who am I?
The path to becoming a neogeographer
http://flickr.com/photos/x180/2494170626/




    Who are the
Neogeographers?
How did we get
here?
Cartographic Evolution
GeoWeb
GoogleMaps & GoogleEarth
Mashups
Geolocated Mobile Devices
Locative Media
Happiness Maps
HeadMap Manifesto
Mapping Hacks
Mobile Devices
Cheap
Broadband
Open GPS
Web Mapping
Planning
Navigation
Mapping
Renaissance
Storytelling
Functionality
                Future
                                              GIS Server




                    OSGeo




                                                       Increasing
                                                       Accessibility
                                        GIS
                   Open Tools

                                Money + Time Cost


                Geospatial Trend
What is the key difference between
GIS and Neogeography?
GIS is Map-Centric
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tcd123/2272715622




Neogeography is User-Centric
http://flickr.com/photos/ayula/55908651/




Neogeography is User-Centric
Neogeography is User-Centric
metadata         analysis   cartography

Common Criticisms
metadata         analysis   cartography

Common Criticisms
How to encourage providing metadata?
Wiki Sharing of Data   http://www.hurricanewiki.org/wiki/
                       Hurricane_Ike_GIS_Resources
Traditional Dialog Boxes
Simple Forms
Explorable
Web-aligned
What about searching through metadata?
Lessons Learned From Neogeography   Nc Gis 2009
Folksonomy and Search
metadata         analysis   cartography

Common Criticisms
How can we trust amateurs to do analysis?
We’ve head this before...
Provide guided interfaces
Lessons Learned From Neogeography   Nc Gis 2009
Lessons Learned From Neogeography   Nc Gis 2009
Safe Routing   http://www.ridethecity.com
MySociety House Price     http://www.mysociety.org/2007/more-travel-maps/

        vs. Travel Time
GoogleEarth > ArcGIS
metadata         analysis   cartography

Common Criticisms
“GoogleMap Fatigue”
“Red Dot Fever”
Lessons Learned From Neogeography   Nc Gis 2009
Open Data
Open Source
EveryBlock   http://everyblock.com
CloudMade
Thematic Visualization
Lessons Learned From Neogeography   Nc Gis 2009
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-Centric
Context
Interface
Story Telling
EverySquareMile
Language Support
Easy Interfaces   http://wrp.geothings.net
Interoperability
Standards
Interfaces
Collaboration




                   http://flickr.com/photos/alfr3do/7436142/
!



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:point>
  +      45.256 -71.92
      </georss:point>




GeoRSS          http://georss.org
USGS   http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/catalogs/
Weather Mashups
Participation
Collaboration
Crowd-Source
Volunteered 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/
Lessons Learned From Neogeography   Nc Gis 2009
How would you reach the last mile in a crisis?




                           http://code.flickr.com/blog/2009/02/04/100000000-geotagged-photos-plus/
Lessons Learned From Neogeography   Nc Gis 2009
Lessons Learned From Neogeography   Nc Gis 2009
What could you do with 90,000+ surveyors?




                         http://code.flickr.com/blog/2009/02/04/100000000-geotagged-photos-plus/
TomTom MapShare
Lessons Learned From Neogeography   Nc Gis 2009
Exponential Growth   http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Stats
Thank you
Andrew Turner
andrew@fortiusone.com
http://highearthorbit.com




                            http://flickr.com/photos/urbanwide/1409142545/

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