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WHERE 2.0: IMPRESSIONS FROM THE WORLD OF ‘NEO-GEOGRAPHY’

MAURITS VAN DER VLUGTSpatial Information strategist

OVERVIEW

Background Paradigm Shifts of Neo-Geography Examples Bushfire Connect Implications for our industry

Q&A

WHERE 2.0 - THE TERM O'Reilly Media “Where 2.0” conference 6th: San Jose, California. 31/3 – 1/4 2010 900 attendees (sold out)

Avg. Age: 30-35. 80% industry, rest Government/Academia

Focus: Neo-Geography, Geo in Web 2.0, Mobile Platforms, Augmented Reality

The “[...] usage of geographical techniques and tools used for

personal and community activities or for utilization by a non-expert

group of users”

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neogeography

NEO-GEOGRAPHY?

The “[...] usage of geographical techniques and tools used for

personal and community activities or for utilization by a non-expert

group of users”

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neogeography

BUZZWORDS

Web 2.0 / Social Media Crowd Sourcing – Volunteered Geo-

Information (VGI) Augmented Reality Geotagging And many more…

VOLUNTEERED GEO INFORMATION (VGI)

National SDI

State SDI

Local SDI

Less detailed dataLess detailed data

More detailed Data (Rajabifard et al)

SDI 1.0 (POLICY DRIVEN)

Less detailed dataLess detailed data

More detailed Data

SDI 2.0 (USER DRIVEN)

From: Kevin McDougall, SSC 2009

OPEN STREETMAP

From: Kevin McDougall, SSC 2009

MAPPING HAITI IN 10 DAYS….

PARADIGM SHIFT #1

From: interactive paper map

PARADIGM SHIFT #1 To: Spatial

Canvas

http://www.mapquake.co.nz/

THE MAP –”APP-STORE””

FIND LOCAL ‘LIVE’ EVENTS

PARADIGM SHIFT #2

AUGMENTED REALITY

USHAHIDI – BUSHFIRE CONNECT

Twitter: @bushfireconnecthttp://bushfireconnect.org

BUSHFIRE CONNECT

Community Powered

Community Resilience

Integrate Crowd Sourced and Official Information

INCIDENT REPORTS

SMS Web-Form Geo-RSS

INCIDENT ALERTS

THE NEO-GEOGRAPHY WAY

Incident reporting, integration and alerts through the ‘Spatial Canvas’

What’s happening ‘Here’?

Trusted, timely and transparent

Complements official agencies

From Andrew Turner, Fortius One

HOW NEOGEOGRAPHERS SEE GIS-ERS

They don’t

From Andrew Turner, Fortius One

HOW NEOGEOGRAPHERS SEE GIS-ERS

They don’t

From Andrew Turner, Fortius One

IMPLICATIONS FOR OUR INDUSTRY?

Ignore at your peril

Who cares about projections, datums, accuracy?

Next big things Explosion of apps on Mobile geo-APIs Hyper localised, real-time reporting Open, open, open…

SUMMARY

Where 2.0 and Neo-Geography By anyone for anyone

Paradigm shifts From digital map, to spatial canvas From “where is that?” to “what is here?”

Bushfire Connect Community powered Integrate crowd-sourced and official information

Neo-geography: Ignore at your peril!

THAT’S IT… THANKS FOR LISTENING

Maurits.vandervlugt@mercuryps.com.au

http://spatial21.blogspot.com

http://bushfireconnect.org

Twitter: @mvandervlugt