This year’s Where2.0 can be simply summarized in four words: less hype – more business, which in my opinion is a very welcome development. As we pointed out in a pre-Where2.0 post, yesterday’s experimental technologies have matured into market-proven businesses, and as location data proliferates every aspect of everyday life, more and more interesting [...]
Continue Reading →Like many of you I’ve been tracking all the “hub bub” about Pete Warden and Allisdair Allen’s iPhone location exploit. There has been not only sensationalist media hype, but also claims of this being old news. Having been a victim of media hype and not particularly having any privacy concerns around my iPhone – I liberated [...]
Continue Reading →Yesterday I presented at Where2.0 about the potential for better decision making and accessible data understanding through Collaborative Analysis. There are a lot of great examples of organizations that are sharing data and their analysis tools for better community understanding, concensus and improved intelligence.
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This weekend at the World Bank annual meetings the World Bank launched their new Mapping for Results platform. The initiative visualizes the location of World Bank projects to better monitor project and impact on people; to enhance transparency and [...]
Continue Reading →This week geo-geeks descend back to the ultimate in location and mapping conferences, Where2.0. For over 7 years Where2.0 has highlighted the cutting edge in technology, businesses, markets, and personalities that moved from primarily locative hacking into what has emerged [...]
Continue Reading →GeoIQ The Data 2.0 Conference
This past weekend I made it out to the Data 2.0 conference in San Francisco hosted by MidVentures. This conference was obviously high on my priorities list as I’m a self confessed data-nerd, and it was great to see so many other enthusiastic data nerds in one place talking [...]
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Yesterday we announced the availability of GeoIQ Connect, an integrated component of the GeoIQ platform that enables users to quickly and easily access information stored in relational and NoSQL databases. You can now combine publicly and file-based data with database and internal data regardless [...]
Continue Reading →I’ve spent the last two days at Enterprise Strategies for Location Intelligence. It was an interesting collection of vendors and enterprise end users. It was encouraging to hear the enterprises in the audience say the agenda hit the areas where they had questions. Across these conversations some interesting meme’s emerged.
One, a general interest [...]
Continue Reading →Last night I saw a tweet from Mike Migurski at Stamen about a San Francisco meetup called NoGIS. Totally intriguing, so I followed the link, and they had the following quick desciption posted up:
“What does mapping technology look like when it’s created distinctly for the web? What was once exclusively the realm of [...]
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This week I was at SxSW Interactive, for those that aren’t familiar it is a 5 day conference about new technology. I was there to be on a panel about “Interoperable Location Data” with Josh Babetski from Mapquest, Adam DuVander of Programmable Web, Scott Raymond from Gowalla and Tyler Bell of Factual. The premise of the panel was that many organizations are currently creating point of interest databases, but how do you combine them or allow them to interact?
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