Ed Freyfogle's presentation at AGI2007

3. Lessons learned while taking a geocentric mashup to being a business

8. Why should you care?

11. Web2.0

12. Why should you care?

14. Are complex GIS products needed to build a geocommunity?

15. Numbers: * Comscore July 2007 amount spent on GIS approx. £5,000 employees 8 countries 2 types of geodata 10+ unique UK users* 219,000 UK homes 500,000

18. Free Trade Wharf, 340 The Highway, Wapping/Limehouse London Fountain Road (Flat 2), Edgbaston, UK 15, ASTLEY HOUSE, LONDON Albert Villas, Gilbert Mews, LEIGHTON BUZZARD, Bedfordshire, LU7 1NF Lake Lock Drive, Wakefield West Yorkshire Church Lane, London

19. UK postcodes (((^[BEGLMNS][1-9]?) | (^W[2-9] ) | ( ^( A[BL] | B[ABDHLNRST] | C[ABFHMORTVW] | D[ADEGHLNTY] | E[HNX] | F[KY] | G[LUY] | H[ADGPRSUX] | I[GMPV] | JE | K[ATWY] | L[ADELNSU] | M[EKL] | N[EGNPRW] | O[LX] | P[AEHLOR] | R[GHM] | S[AEGKL-PRSTWY] | T[ADFNQRSW] | UB | W[ADFNRSV] | YO | ZE ) ?) | (^W1[A-HJKSTUW0-9]) | (( (^WC[1-2]) | (^EC[1-4]) | (^SW1) ) [ABEHMNPRVWXY] ) ) (*)? ([0-9][ABD-HJLNP-UW-Z]{2})) housenumbers (+[]?*[]?[A-F]*[]?*)

21. User intent I want to live “near “ Central London I want to live “near “ Soho I want to live “near “ Speyton

27. Merging diverse geodata MP constituencies no correlation to boroughs/postcodes/anything

28. Photos of every OS grid no correlation to boroughs/postcodes/anything

31. Internationalis(z)ation

33. Exposing geodata Google mapplet

34. Facebook Application

35. Widgets

36. Literally cut and paste

38. Why should you care?

39. It’s very possible to build a geocommunity without GIS

40. Is the professional GIS community relevant?

43. Questions/Discussion

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