foss4g 2014 - will cadell
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Disparate Data, Technology Fiefdoms (and 65 pictures of your cat) Up in the frozen wastes of the Northern British Columbia, we organized a hackathon. We based it on the ideas of open data and civic applications. Our hardy hackathoners pulled together a number of excellent ideas but met with a constant and obtrusive barrier: that open data maybe open but with out some level of standardization its not actually very useful. Now, no one said that data had to be ‘useful’, and perhaps if we want the technology utopia of real open data interoperability we will need to “build it” ourselves, but it is worth noting that talking the same language as our neighbours is generally awesome. Indeed, perhaps rather than swearing fealty to our technology overlords and just pressing the “publish document to open data platform” button, we could think about the commonwealth of data. The value of any data increases wildly with density and open data should be more valuable! The cats? well you’ll have to tune in for that bit.TRANSCRIPT
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Disparate data, technology fiefdoms(and 65 pictures of your cat)
@geo_will>sparkgeo.com
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> sparkgeo.com
“For every two degrees the temperature goes up, check-ins at ice cream shops go up by 2%.” – Andrew Hogue, Foursquare
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> sparkgeo.com
My name is Will and I have a data problem
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> sparkgeo.com
sparkgeo is a technology company
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> sparkgeo.com
sparkgeo is a data company#protip: your organization is also a data organization
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> sparkgeo.com
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> sparkgeo.com
Open data is awesome(give yourselves a clap, come on!)
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> sparkgeo.com
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> sparkgeo.com
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I want data, I see complexity
> sparkgeo.com
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Do we really care about the software?
> sparkgeo.com
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> sparkgeo.com(I stole this picture from the internet & I can’t remember from who, sorry!)
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> sparkgeo.com
There are estimated to be 14,308,667,560 pictures of cats on the internet
There are only thought to be 220,000,000 domestic cats in the world
So, every cat has had 65 pictures of it posted on the web? Right?
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Your first easy to do open data decision?
> sparkgeo.com
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Publish your vectors in 4326, and your tiles in 3857.
> sparkgeo.com
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> sparkgeo.com
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> sparkgeo.com
And here is a picture of a cat I found on
the internet
It’s grumpy