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Presentations: Where Fair

Where Fair projects will be selected from research, academia, and yet-to-be-discovered entrepreneurs. The Where Fair complements the Conference’s Exhibit Hall that showcases state-of-the-art systems, apps, and services in the location space.

The Where Fair is back for the sixth year! This hands-on, demo-licious evening event showcases the most exciting location-aware tools, apps, and hardware that are emerging from garages and university labs. Fair-goers can discuss the ideas behind the demos with the creators, and learn how these unconventional new technologies can be adapted into existing business strategies. Where Fair projects will be selected from research, academia, and yet-to-be-discovered entrepreneurs. The Where Fair complements the Conference’s Exhibit Hall that showcases state-of-the-art systems, apps, and services in the location space.

Burning Man Earth - Mapping a Cultural Genome

Rich Gibson (Gigapan.org)

The annual Burning Man festival provides a proving ground for new social models and technologies. The Burning Man Earth group creates maps and supports the event, as well as working to 'capture the event in amber' with imagery and maps.

DIY StreetView - The OpenView Project

Tom Longson (The OpenView Project)

Google pushed the envelope of mapping with StreetView, but have trouble capturing beyond the asphalt. What if you could create interactive panoramas for the world as you see it? Where would you go? Would you visit the Gaza Strip? Would you show what it's like to walk around a volcano? Learn how to do interactive panoramas yourself, and map in a whole new way.

Finding and Connecting People in Africa to Infrastructure Using Remote Sensing and Geospatial Optimization

Roy Hyunjin Han (Earth Institute of Columbia University)

We created a system that enables a policymaker to quickly create rough infrastructure construction plans grounded in geospatial and mathematical rigor and compare the effect of different policies on cost and layout. Learn how we are using satellite images and Python to bring water, electricity and internet to more people sooner.

iNaturalist: Biodiversity Informatics

Nathan Agrin (iNaturalist.org), Ken-ichi Ueda (iNaturalist.org)

We share the world with millions of different species, yet we know little about their current dispersion and what short-term environmental changes affect them. iNaturalist.org is a socially oriented website that allows anyone to catalog what, where, and when they see living thing, creating a living history that allows for immediate analysis of species health and distribution.

Leveraging HD Interactive 360° Video for Mapping Experiences

Matthew Forrest (Social Animal), Eric Soboleski (Social Animal)

1 Presentation Files:
Leveraging HD Interactive 360° Video for Mapping Experiences Presentation [PPT],
http://socialanimal.tv/where/where.html,
http://vimeo.com/10753946

Social Animal creates HD 360 degree video with their SA9 camera system which provides high resolution video without the typical warping or distortion. Social Animal's patent pending SA9 camera system and video village will be on display along with an example of a recent 360 video mapping project.

Map and Share Your Psychogeographic World with Cognitive Surveyor

Drew Dara-Abrams (University of California, Santa Barbara), Alan Glennon (spatial@ucsb)

Geotech usually focuses on the world as it exists. But what about the world as we remember and use it? Cognitive Surveyor is a distributed system developed at the University of California, Santa Barbara, that constructs "cognitive maps" for users and for communities. From piecemeal measurements collected from the GPS and digital compass units in smartphones, revealing behavioral patterns emerge.

Mash up Autocad Drawing with Google Map

Nguyen Le (Focation.com)

AutoCAD drawing is actually future map of an area, but they just sit there in the workstations of those designing engineers, hardly shared with the rest of us. With the latest league of mapguide open source from Autodesk, we are able to easily mash up those drawings with Google map, transforming those valuable drawings into online map that can be viewed, shared and embedded in web pages.

UnYorkshire

Matt Seward (kilo75)

A travel guide itinerary planner and plotter based on your online persona.

Web-based Visualization and Analysis of NASA Ecological Data

Sam Hiatt (NASA Ecological Forecasting Lab), Andrew Michaelis (NASA Ecological Forecasting Lab)

The Terrestrial Observation and Prediction System uses satellite and weather data to monitor and forecast critical ecological conditions. We use web-based tools to provide visualization and analysis capabilities that extend the use of our data to a wider audience, promoting multidisciplinary collaboration and providing solutions to real-world problems.