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Where 2.0 Conference 2009 Workshops
Location: Regency Ballroom #2
Justin Deoliveira (OpenGeo),
Sophia Parafina (Ugotrade)
The OpenGeo stack provides an easy to use and flexible technology for building web mapping solutions. This workshop provides a hands-on overview of the OpenGeo technology stack which is comprised of GeoServer, GeoWebCache, and OpenLayers.
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Location: Gold
Lynda Sharkey (Autodesk)
Workshop focused on the data and technologies needed to build detailed 3D City Models that can be used for urban design and planning, economic development, sustainable design, envirnomental simulation, tourism and event coordination.
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Location: Regency Ballroom #1
Andrew Turner (GeoIQ),
Rabble Evan Henshaw-Plath (cuboxsa.com)
You can add maps to your site in minutes with Microsoft, Google's, Mapquest, or Yahoo's APIs. However, there's more to geo than just maps or the big guy's APIs. Learn how and when to use geocoding, reverse-geocoding, place names and other services that you've never hear of before.
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Location: California
Daniel Chu (Google, Inc.),
Chris Conway (Trulia, Inc.),
Mark Taylor (Weather Decision Technologies / iMap),
Robert Fritchie (Weather Decision Technologies)
A mapping API is a critical business tool, empowering you to organize and display your organization's data for use by employees and customers, and it's crucial to choose a solution that meets your needs.
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Location: Regency Ballroom #2
Paul Ramsey (OpenGeo),
Mike Pumphrey (OpenGeo)
OpenGIS spatial databases, such as PostGIS, SQL Server Spatial and Oracle Spatial, can add geoprocessing and spatial query processing to applications in the GeoWeb. We will show how spatial SQL can power REST geoprocessing, Google Maps apps, and KML, and get students up to speed with the basics of this powerful tool.
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Location: Gold
Bruce Daniel (Cartifact)
35 years ago the term "information overload" was introduced... and now we have the ability to plot all that information on a map! How can we do it? How can we design maps to be a medium for information synthesis instead of information overload?
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Location: Regency Ballroom #1
Andrew Turner (GeoIQ),
Rabble Evan Henshaw-Plath (cuboxsa.com)
Having leading edge features and capabilities are great, but if you can't get data into your system, or users can take their data out then it's a dead end. This workshop will cover popular formats, services, and interfaces that are emergent and upcoming in the Where2.0 space.
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Location: California
Marc Naddell (NAVTEQ),
Uday Keshavdas (Intel)
NAVTEQ Network For Developers (NN4D) is the global community dedicated to Location developers. Come see how developers are succeeding with new NAVTEQ content, map data and APIs. Let NN4D technical and business support teams help you learn, build, and showcase your apps. Learn about specific “channels” to market through NN4D.
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Location: Regency Ballroom #2
Marc Lindsey (LB3)
In this 1 hour 15 minute workshop, Marc Lindsey and Joaquin Gamboa will examine the scattered framework of U.S. statutory and case law to provide guidance to location tracking application and product developers.
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Location: Gold
Duane Nickull (Adobe Systems),
Bess Ho (Archimedes Ventures),
Andreas Falley (Synchrodipity),
Rev. Dan Tripp (a2sg.com)
This is a hands on lab where students will learn how to use Adobe's open source Flex and AIR compilers to build interactive flash based maps. The lab will include a brief intro to Flex and AIR followed by mostly spending time coding. No prior experience is necessary and all skill levels are encouraged to attend.
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Location: Regency Ballroom #1
Michal Migurski (Stamen Design),
Shawn Allen (Stamen Design),
Josh Livni (Umbrella Consulting),
Dane Springmeyer (Freelance Consultant)
Designers and developers are advancing the state of online mapmaking at a dizzying pace. The introduction of global slippy maps in 2005 represented a new era of interactivity and sophistication in geographic user interfaces. Are we on the cusp of another such leap? Stamen says yes, and shows what new work and new advances are being made to push the envelope still further.
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Location: Regency Ballroom #1
Frank Taylor (Google Earth Blog)
Google Earth provides a visualization platform for sharing geospatial information that is both deep with data and imagery, but also rich in terms of functionality. This session will demonstrate cutting edge applications, discuss the availability of developer resources, and will even describe tools available to use the platform without coding.
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Location: Regency Ballroom #2
Ryan Sarver (Twitter)
Location aware websites, applications and devices can provide users with rich social connectivity, useful content, efficient movement around their environment, highly targeted advertising, and more. We will discuss the new W3C Geolocation API, location-aware browsers and other available tools that can add location to websites and applications.
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Location: Gold
Mark Hansen (UCLA)
As a technical problem, map making has never been easier. As an approach to visualization or even data analysis, however, the story rarely ends with attaching “placemarks,” specifying paths or defining regions over some territory.
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Location: Regency Ballroom #1
Alex Oliver (Igloo Studios)
Sketchup, Google's free tool, has been used to render millions of buildings. However it can be much more powerful when you add in location data. This course explores leveraging that data in design using Google Earth, Google SketchUp and the Google 3D Warehouse.
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Location: Regency Ballroom #2
Dave Johnson (Nitobi)
Combining the web and geo location in smart phones is one most powerful technology combinations in software development today. Moving your web application to a mobile device is quick and easy using open source web technologies. Learn how to move your web app to the modern smart phone.
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Location: Gold
Mano Marks (Google, Inc. )
This workshop will be a heads-first dive into advanced KML techniques and best practices for developing complex, engaging and data-dense maps for Google Earth.
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