My keynote presentation at Minnesota GIS/LIS. Similar to my recent keynote at AGI GeoCommunity in the UK, but with some additional material (50 vs 30 minutes) and a few tweaks. Looks at trends in the geospatial industry in three areas: moving to the mainstream; a real time multimedia view of the world; and crowdsourcing.

1. The Geospatial
Revolution
Peter Batty
Spatial Networking, Enspiria Solutions
Minnesota GIS/LIS Conference
October 22, 2009
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2. Overview
• Mainstream at last!
• A real-time, multimedia view of the world
• Crowdsourcing
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3. GIS was a specialized backroom
technology for many years
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4. “1995: the year that GIS disappeared”
Doug Seaborn
AM/FM conference, 1992
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5. Disruptive technology
Functionality / lo gy
performance c hno
he d te
bl is
E sta Mainstream
Market
requirements
lo gy
chno
e te
ru ptiv
Dis
Time
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6. Now much easier to
include location data
Free or cheap Location
Geocoding
map data tracking
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7. Finally, geospatial data is
just another data type
flickr.com/photos/26664862@N04/2499573972/
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8. The neogeographers
Google
Microsoft
Open Source
... and more
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9. Geo moving to
the mainstream
1996 MapQuest
2005 Google Earth
(Keyhole)
2005 Google Maps
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10. Fun and cool
Performance
Ease of use
API
Continued innovation
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11. 3D buildings
Birds eye view
Photosynth
SQL Server
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13. Strong in database
Strong in web mapping
Weaker on desktop
Data improving fast
Spans both “GIS” and
“neogeo” spaces
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14. “But these new systems are just simple
web mapping, they’re not GIS”
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15. Cartography
Andy Allan, Cloudmade
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17. Data creation and maintenance
Upcoming Mapzen editor
Cloudmade
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18. Data creation and maintenance
“Walking Papers” for OpenStreetMap Stamen Design
Here’s a print of Chinatown, San Francisco. 18

19. Geospatial
analysis
Stamen Design
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20. Geospatial analysis
FortiusOne / GeoCommons
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21. Graphic showing “peace”
Maybe hippies holding hands
(Shouldn’t fight neogeo vs GIS - all same problem)
neogeography = GIS
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22. Data sharing
KML
GML
geoRSS
WMS Shape
geoJSON WFS
Lightweight Heavyweight
Mashups OGC
Google Search Portals
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23. “If a dataset available on the web is in
a format that can't be indexed by
Google, does it make a sound?”
Kevin Wiebe
Safe Software
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24. Jason Birch
City of Nanaimo
<Picture of Jason>
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33. Google Maps
now has parcels!
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34. Computing in the cloud
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35. A real-time, multimedia
view of the world
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36. September 7, 2009
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37. October 19, 2009
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42. Microsoft Photosynth
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43. Google Streetview
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44. maps
Microsoft Virtual Earth
Manhattan
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45. C3 Technologies
Las Vegas
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46. prototypegame.org
Manhattan
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47. Live
Video
Live
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48. The Sensor Web
Need a spatial context to
make sense of all this
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49. Location sensing
UWB GPS
Wi-Fi RFID
Cell towers
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50. New TomTom traffic speed dataset
derived from
600 billion
speed readings from users
real time data within
3 minutes
flickr.com/photos/rutlo/3164449930/
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51. location based services
are real at last!
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52. Smart Grid
“The Internet brought to our electric system”
Storage Renewable Energy
Demand Response Intelligent devices and
control systems
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53. Will have the ability to know where everything is
- and what is happening - all the time
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54. Crowdsourcing
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55. Web Web
1.0 2.0
publishing participation
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56. Wikipedia
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57. Hurricane Katrina
New Orleans
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58. Community generated data
scipionus.com
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59. Landgate
Perth, Western Australia
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61. “The future is user
created data” Google MapMaker
Michael Jones, Google
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63. OpenStreetMap
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64. December 3, 2007
Google OpenStreetMap
July 7, 2009
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65. Denver, CO Denver, CO
USA USA
“Mousetrap” junction
of I-25 and I-70
Cape Royal
Grand Canyon, AZ Cropston
USA England
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66. 132,764
175,096 users
24m km of highways
crazy
34m km of ways
momentum!!
OSM stats from May 2009
NAVTEQ had 18m km of highways in Dec 2007
flickr.com/photos/pimpmasterjazz/2601898276/
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68. What about quality?
Dr Muki Haklay of UCL
“OSM quality is beyond good enough, it is a product
that can be used for a wide range of activities”
Based on a detailed analysis
http://tinyurl.com/mukiosm
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69. Database
2007 data
69 countries
11m miles (18m km) of roads
18m points of interest
People “Creating, maintaining and delivering a
comprehensive, high quality map database is a
Field force 700 multi-step, labor-intensive process. We
Central production 270 currently employ over 270 employees in our
centralized production facility and a global
Technology 500 workforce of over 700 geographic analysts in
32 countries”
Total 3349
Financial
Revenue $853m (~€604m)
Data creation & distribution costs $396m (~€280m)
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70. Crowdsourcing is a paradigm shift for data creation
flickr.com/photos/jamescridland/613445810/
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71. In summary ... a wild ride ahead!
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72. ?
peter.batty@spatialnetworking.com
geothought.blogspot.com
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