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Presentations: Launch Pad
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Tapan Sengupta (Digital Inclusion)
The challenges faced by GIS application developers in the developing world are entirely different than that of their counterparts in the developed world. Here the author identifies some of the problems and shows how to get around the issues like of absence of data. In addition he presents a technology assessments with benchmark to address low bandwidth problem of the developing world.
David Troy (410Labs)
With irregularities in the election process widely reported in 2000 and 2004, the 2008 election represented one of the first opportunities to use technologies like Twitter, SMS, and cell phones to document and map the election process. Twitter Vote Report was the result of work by activists and technologists, and created a permanent document of the 2008 election.
Michele Bowman (Global Foresight Associates)
A new breed of maps is emerging that are revealing breakthroughs in our understanding of biology, neuroscience, ecology and the physical world. We’re now able to map not just physical geographies, but genomes, neural pathways, emotions, social networks - even the global movement of ideas. These new maps tell powerful stories about the changes that will shape society over the next twenty years.
Adam DuVander (ProgrammableWeb)
Google Maps is innovative, but also proprietary. Yahoo, Microsoft, and Mapquest also have equally closed platforms, while the open source JavaScript library Mapstraction ties them together with a single interface. This panel will discuss whether there should be a standard for interoperable mapping APIs, or whether there's more benefit and innovation to remaining proprietary.
Yosuke Akamatsu (sidefeed, Inc.)
We are developping a linux-hearted radio (wifi) control car. This car is equipped with web server, web cam and GPS. You can drive this car from anywhere in the world by your browser.
Martin Flynn (GeoTelematic Solutions, Inc.)
OpenGTS (Open Source GPS Tracking System - http://www.OpenGTS.org) was first made available in January of 2007 and is now in use in at least 33 different countries around the world for tracking vehicles, trucks, delivery vans, ships, people, phones, etc. This session will be an overview of the features and capabilities of the OpenGTS System available on SourceForge.
Tom Link (Universal Mind, Inc.)
SpatialKey is a next generation Information Visualization, Analysis and Reporting System. It is designed to help organizations quickly assess location based information critical to their organizational goals, decision making processes and reporting requirements.
Peter Batty (Spatial Networking)
This presentation talks about the challenges in building a fine-grained model of a person's future location, and about the range of powerful applications that can be built off such a model. Many applications focus on the current location of a person and their friends - future location is harder to handle but arguably more useful.
Eric Gundersen (MapBox)
This session will provide an overview of the Washington, D.C. government's recent decision to open up many of its public data streams for easy public use and the contest they sponsored to highlight the usefulness of this data. The session will then look in depth at two fully open source mapping websites built to make use of this data.
Noam Bardin (Waze)
Waze helps commuters answer the question, “which way should I go today?” To use waze, drivers download a free application to their GPS-enabled smartphone. This application provides free traffic, navigation and community-based alerts.
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