1. Preserving the Old
with the ‘Neo’
Andrew Turner
FortiusOne - GeoCommons
andrew@fortiusone.com
http://highearthorbit.com

2. People live and interact with Place
flickr: qwertyuiop

3. Geography is a
Common Pivot Point

4. “Americus”
The role of maps
Maps Reflect & Define Reality

5. What is Neogeography?

6. StoryMapping

7. Emphemeral Maps http://maps.google.com

8. Meaning

9. Navigation

10. Compass

11. 1492 - Columbus sails
the ocean blue

12. Cartographic Renaissance

13. So geographers, in Afric maps,
With savage pictures fill their gaps,
And o’er unhabitable downs
Place elephants for want of towns.
- Jonathan Swift

14. Ortelius Atlas

15. Exploration

16. Travel Guides

17. Driving Guides

18. GIS

19. Internet Maps

20. Locative Media

21. urban renewal
participatory web
2005 - Google slips the
map
mobile computing
GPS becomes
ubiquitous

22. HousingMaps http://housingmaps.com

23. Slippy Maps
&
Virtual Globes

24. Ubiquitous,
Inexpensive
Locative Devices

26. neogeography ŏ
geographical techniques and tools used
for personal activities or for utilization by
a non-expert group of users; not formal
or analytical.

27. It’s about the user

28. Is this the user?

29. This is a user
http://flickr.com/photos/ayula/55908651/

30. He should be a user
http://flickr.com/photos/thomashawk/35413354/

31. She’s your next user

32. • Discover
• Remember
User-Driven
• Connect
• Share
• Imagine
• Enable

33. • Citizen
• Historian
User-Personas
• Grandparent
• Student
• Planner
• Representative

34. Archival Case Study: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
UK Domesday Project BBC_Domesday_Project

35. EverySquareMile

36. Explore EverySquareMile

37. User Interface EverySquareMile

38. Historical Context EverySquareMile

39. Building Blocks

40. Data

41. GeoData Catalogs

42. Open GeoData http://geocommons.com

43. Open Government GeoData

44. Open Government GeoData

45. Open International GeoData

46. <georss:point>
+ 45.256 -71.92
</georss:point>
Open Linkable GeoData

47. Open Semantic Data?

48. Dynamic Feeds

51. GeoNames http://geonames.org

52. GeoNames http://geonames.org

53. Media

54. Google StreetView EveryScape
Media

55. Local Videos

56. Deep Tagged Videos

57. GeoTagged Media http://soundseeker.org

58. Geotagging Media

59. GPS Units
• My Recommendation:
Garmin eTrex Legend HCx

60. GPS Babel
http://www.gpsbabel.org

62. Camera
• Captures Image
• and TimeStamp
• How to Geotag photographs?

63. GPicSync
http://code.google.com/p/gpicsync/

64. HoudahGeo
http://www.houdah.com

65. HoudahGeo - Photos

66. HoudahGeo - Tracks

67. HoudahGeo - KML

68. HoudahGeo - KML

70. HoudahGeo - Flickr

71. http://www.flickr.com

72. Flickr Geotag

74. Flickr Search: Pottery in Kenya

75. Flickr Search: Culture in Kenya

77. Flickr Export

78. Google Picasa + Panoramio

79. Google MyMaps

81. Flickr Photos

82. Implicit GeoData http://geocodr.net

83. Library of Congress http://www.flickr.com/photos/
library_of_congress/

84. Flickr Commons http://www.flickr.com/commons

85. Crowd-Sourced
Filtering

86. OpenStreetMap http://openstreetmap.org

87. Mapping Data is not
Free

88. Full of Mistakes

89. Poor Coverage

90. Changing World

91. What is
OpenStreetMap?
= +

92. OpenStreetMap http://openstreetmap.org

93. Wiki for the World

94. How it works

101. Using the Data
• Licensed - Creative Commons
Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
• RESTful API
url = node?node=2000
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<osm version="0.3" generator="OpenStreetMap server">
<node lon='-0.148588713362387' id='40'
lat='51.5278975364617'>
<tag k="hum" v="cheese"/>
</node>
</osm>

102. Making Maps
OSMarender Mapnik

105. OpenCycleMap http://opencyclemap.org

106. GPSies http://gpsies.com/

107. OpenCycleMap http://opencyclemap.org

108. Shenzen Maps

109. StumbleSafely http://www.outsideindc.com/stumblesafely

110. Flickr OSM http://www.flickr.com/map?
&fLat=39.9227&fLon=116.4694&zl=6

111. • Set of Tools
OpenStreetMap is... • Open, Linked Database
• Community
• Principles
• Proven Use Case

112. OpenAerialMap http://openaerialmap.org

113. BurningManEarth http://earth.burningman.org

114. MapWarper http://warper.geothings.net

115. NYPL http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital

116. Upload a Scanned Map

117. Ground Control Points

118. Warped Image

119. Exportable

120. Oakland Historic Maps http://www.teczno.com/old-oakland/

121. Maps for Farmers http://serveyourcountryfood.com

122. Data Formats

123. !
Standards Organizations http://opengeospatial.org

124. Standards Organizations http://fgdc.gov

125. Standards Organizations http://www.w3.org/

126. Standards Organizations http://iso.org

127. Standards Organizations http://openwebfoundation.org

128. Semantic Web

129. GeoWeb

132. A RESTful Web

133. • /places
• /places/89
• /places/89.atom
• /places/89.kml
Resources

134. Web Aligned http://highearthorbit.com/a-proposal-georss-kml

135. Formats
HTML : RSS :: KML : GeoRSS
Visualization : Syndication

136. OpenSearch-Geo
http://search.org?q={searchTerm}
&lat={geo:lat}&lon={geo:lon}

137. OpenSearch-Geo
http://maps.google.com/maps?near=43.3+-0.03
http://local.yahoo.com/?csz=43.3,-0.03
http://upcoming.org/search?lat=43.3&lon=-0.03
http://api.flickr.com/services/photos_public.gne?bbox=-0.03,43.3, -0.04,43.4
http://mapufacture.com/search?lat=43.3&lon=-0.03
lat={geo:lat}&lon={geo:lon}&radius={geo:radius}
bbox={geo:box}
where={geo:locationString}
area={geo:polygon}

138. Create
Exif GeoRSS KML GPX Geocoding
GeoStack
Publish
GeoRSS KML Microformats MachineTags
Aggregate
GML KML GeoRSS WFS GeoJSON
Consume

139. The power and potential of de-facto standards.

140. GoogleEarth

141. Google Layers

142. KML
http://code.google.com/apis/kml/
documentation/kmlreference.html

143. OGC KML 2.2 http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/kml/

144. <georss:point>
+ 45.256 -71.92
</georss:point>
GeoRSS http://georss.org

145. Spatialite

146. CSV - Comma Separated Value
"name","holepar","holeyardage","holenumber","latitude","longitude"
"Simple placemark","4.0","234.0","1.0","-121.082203542568","37.4222899014025"
"Simple placemark 2","3.0","100.0","2.0","-121.082203542568","37.4222899014025"
"name","holepar","holeyardage","holenumber","address"
"Simple placemark","4.0","234.0","1.0","1517 N. Main St., Royal Oak, MI"
"Simple placemark 2","3.0","100.0","2.0","2200 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA"

147. GeoPDF

148. Mobile

149. Mobline Placemarking

150. cab4me
Android Innovations

151. VoteReport http://twittervotereport.com

152. Crowd-Curation

153. ...and iterate.

154. Create a participatory
democracy.

155. InaugurationReport http://inaugurationreport.com

156. Lessons Learned

157. http://www.flickr.com/photos/gregorio/40268917
Hurricanes Katrina
and Rita

158. Damage Awareness Hurricane Katrina

159. Crisis Reporting
Hurricane Katrina

160. Save our Schools

161. School Facilities Master
Plan for Orleans Parish

162. Regional-Modernism

163. School Facilities
Master Plan

164. Geolocated Plans Save our Schools

165. Historic Photographs Save our Schools

166. Taylor’s 1924 Map

167. Taylor’s Map - Rectified

168. Scientifically Minded

169. Huey P. Long Ave

170. Taylor’s 1924 Map of
New Orleans

171. maps.thinknola.com Save our Schools

173. Disparate Data Centers
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vermininc

174. Unique Data Formats
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ajturner/3736209089

175. Difficult to Use Tools
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bitterlysweet/33358201

176. Lacking in Interfaces
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mstorz/455544132

177. Missing Metadata
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jweise/2851083791

178. Not Scalable
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kisocci/3675950734

179. Static
Tightly Controlled &
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stuckincustoms/201034654

181. Share your Data http://finder.geocommons.com

182. Build on Data http://maker.geocommons.com

183. Encourage People to Share Data

184. Geospatially Enable

186. Geographic Context Example Elements
address event point station
(physical) facility port street
address geography position suburb
(postal)
house post terrain
area
household property territory
bearing
incident region topography
bearings
latitude reservation town
city
locale residence tract
community
locality river reach venue
compass
locate route vicinity
country
location scene village
direction
longitude site watershed
distance
neighborhood situation where
district
pinpoint space whereabouts
domicile
place spot ZIP code

187. GeoReferencing: Geocoding

188. GeoReferencing: Spatial Join

189. GeoReferencing Process

190. Data
Attribute
Coercion

191. Geographic
Attribute
Identification

192. Geospatial
Attribute
Identification

193. Geospatial
Taxonomy
Identification

194. Verification

195. How to encourage providing metadata?

196. Wiki Sharing of Data http://www.hurricanewiki.org/wiki/
Hurricane_Ike_GIS_Resources

197. Traditional Dialog Boxes

198. Simple Forms

199. Explorable

200. Data Sharing

201. Data Attributes

202. Data Description with Metadata Standards
• FGDC
• ISO 19115
• Microformats
• Meta
• Hyperlinks

203. What about searching through metadata?

204. Complicated Interfaces

205. Folksonomy and Search

206. Make Sharing the Default

207. Data Sharing with Common, Open Standards
• KML
• Shapefile
• CSV
• Atom
• JSON
• WFS
• Spatialite

208. Dynamic Data

209. Datasets as Databases
Upload KML
Shapefile Visualize
CSV (Excel)
GeoRSS
Documents
Download
Finder Maker
Parse &
Store Analyze
Core

210. Spread the Data

211. Geospatial Federated
Search Search

212. Geospatial Catalog and Server

213. Geospatial Federated
Search Search

214. Encourage People to Explore

215. Data Sharing via Map Making

216. Data Sharing via Map Making

217. Data Sharing via Map Making

218. Data Sharing via Map Making

219. Data Sharing via Map Making

220. Data Sharing via Map Making

221. Data Sharing via Map Making

222. Data Sharing via Map Making

223. Data Sharing via Map Making

224. Data Sharing via Map Making

225. Visualization

226. Combine Multiple Datasets

227. Analysis

228. Temporal Displays

230. Daytime Crime

231. Nighttime Crime

232. Customized, Offline Rendering

233. Cloud Architecture
create
instance
Cache
S3
Downloads
v1.4.3 Snapshot
attach data
Default
Datasets
Backup Backup Backup

234. Multiple Output

235. KML Spatialite Atom

236. Web Maps

237. KML Export

238. KML + 3D AreYouSafeDC

239. GeoPDF

240. Wind Energy vs. Gas Price
GeoPDF

241. Maps as Social Objects

242. Maps as Social, Archivable Objects

243. Asante Sana
GeoWeb
e: andrew@highearthorbit.com
b: highearthorbit.com
t: twitter.com/ajturner