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Jonathan Stark (Jonathan Stark Consulting),
Brian LeRoux (Nitobi Inc.)
Winner of the LaunchPad competition at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, PhoneGap is an open source initiative for bringing native device capabilities to mobile browsers. In this session, you’ll learn how to use PhoneGap to easily build apps for iPhone, Android, Pre and Blackberry.
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If you had five minutes on stage what would you say? What if you only got 20 slides and they rotated automatically after 15 seconds? Would you pitch a project? Launch a web site? Teach a hack? We’re going to find out when we try our first Ignite event at Where 2.0.
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Following the planned sessions during the day, it's time for Where 2.0 participants to take the floor. BoFs are informal conversations that you and other participants plan. Visit the BoF page for more details and to sign up to lead a BoF of your own.
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Blaise Agüera y Arcas (Microsoft)
When mapping first arrived on the web, it was all about driving directions. In the era of the mashup, we saw map tiles being used as canvas for a variety of websites devoted to data visualization and interaction. At Bing, we've been evolving to meet and accelerate the trajectory of these shifts, in the process enabling a broad sweep of new applications written by anyone, using data from anywhere.
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Chris Vein (City and County of San Francisco),
Tim O'Reilly (O'Reilly Media, Inc.)
San Francisco has led the way in releasing public data sets and working with citizens to generate more. Under CIO Chris Vein the city launched DataSF. Working with Stamen Design, SF has also started collecting data from its citizens via programs like Cycle Tracks. Chris and Tim will discuss how cities and application developers will benefit from open data and the future of programs like these.
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Michael Jones (Google)
Online maps, location-based services, local advertising, GPS technology, web mashups, personal navigation devices, and mobile telephones have extended the meaning of the word 'map' in new and important ways. Further changes now underway promise to eclipse even today's maps in impact. Michael will offer Google's view on both the surprises and opportunities that await us all.
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Mok Oh (Where Inc.)
We discuss the past, present, and the future of 3D technologies -- e.g. Photosynth, Google Earth, panoramic imagery, photogrammetry -- specifically for the Where 2.0 audience. In this context, we ask the question: Is 3D really worth the pain? The goal of this talk is to provide an analysis of where 3D was, is, and will be headed specifically for the Where 2.0 audience.
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Jesper Andersen (Bloom Studios)
As a real estate search engine, Trulia encounters a great deal of geo-coded and locale specific data, not just about the properties themselves but also conditions and contexts guiding a home purchasing decision. We’ll discuss Trulia’s approach to Geodata and how we use it to derive economic meaning, and ultimately, value for users from this data that isn’t available from traditional sources.
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Patrick Meier (Ushahidi)
Secretary of State Clinton noted the unprecedented role of mobile technology in the disaster response when she highlighted how interactive maps and text messages were used to save lives in Haiti. This presentation will describe how Ushahidi's interactive Crisis Map of Haiti was combined with crowdsourcing and text messaging to enable two-way communication with disaster affected communities.
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Andre Parris (Bloomberg, LP)
Wall Street is the “Land of the Spreadsheet.” But what if Excel was challenged by the fastest interactive mapping platform on the planet as the analysis tool of choice? And what if the provider of that platform also happened to be a financial services company more legendary for its fixed income analytics? See what happens when Finance and Bing Maps with Silverlight collide.
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Haris Kurtagic (SL-King),
Geoff Zeiss (Autodesk, Inc.)
We present an open source project (www.geoREST.org) whose objective is web-searchable open government geodata and show how governments can easily publish their geospatial data in a web-searchable format such as HTML, JSON, and KML. GeoREST is also an open API that allows developers to embed open geodata access in their applications.
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Jennifer Pahlka (Code for America)
Governments at all levels are reaching out for technical assistance, but they don't always know how to ask for it. Jen Palhka is ready to share some tips for how to make sure you are speaking the same language.
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Keith Lee (Booyah)
The advent of touchscreen mobile phones with GPS and cameras such as the iPhone and Android phones is giving rise to an array Location-Based games. It's opening up a brand new sector: Real-World Gaming. This presentation will take a look at the technologies and monetization strategies in the white-hot geo-location real world social gaming space.
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Philip Ashlock (OpenPlans)
Municipalities can be part of an interoperable network using web services to enhance public services and civic engagement. Open311 is one case study where collaboration is leading to interoperability within the distributed model of local government. With this and the web as a reference, municipalities have an opportunity to offer site specific services using internationally consistent interfaces.
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Kati London (Area/Code)
It’s been ten years since the first geo-cache was placed. Since then, locative games have continued to change how we play, where we go, and what we think when we get there. As locative games mature and evolve, they are creating increasingly complex and engaging imaginary spaces in the real world.
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Mark L. DeMulder (United States Geological Survey)
The National Map, one of the cornerstones of the United States Geological Survey’s National Geospatial Program, is a collaborative effort between the U.S. Geological Survey and other federal, state, and local partners to improve and deliver geospatial information for the nation. This presentation will describe its current status and provide an overview of the National Map products and services.
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Deborah Estrin (UCLA)
Mobile smartphones can be easily programmed to automatically record GPS coordinates and accelerometer readings, creating geocoded, time-stamped, activity logs of our every day lives. In this talk Deborah will describe promising applications and suggest that it’s time to consider the technical and legal structures needed for individuals to retain control over their telling traces.
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Jeffrey Johnson (Open Solutions Group),
John Crowley (Harvard Humanitarian Initiative and STAR-TIDES),
Schuyler Erle (SimpleGeo)
After the earthquake in Haiti, a community of crisis mappers started
to prove what can be done when gifted minds channel their energies
into a collective effort. This
session will highlight the efforts of many individuals and will
testify to the lessons derived from their efforts.
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Ian White (Urban Mapping, Inc),
Steve Coast (OpenStreetMap),
Timothy Trainor (U.S. Census Bureau),
Peter ter Haar (Ordnance Survey),
Di-Ann Eisnor (Platial)
Moderated by: Ian White
Over the past 20 years, a highly accurate and attribute-laden base map has been developed at enormous cost. While commercial map providers offer the gold standard, the game is changing-'good enough' is beginning to enter the equation. Come join us at this sure to be highly engaging panel that will dive into uncharted territory to find the answers and surface the controversy.
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Jeffrey Warren (Grassroots Mapping)
Grassroots Mapping (grassrootsmapping.org) is a series of participatory mapping projects involving communities in cartographic dispute. In this talk, Jeffrey will review the January projects in Lima, Peru and discuss the ongoing work of activist and community-based grassroots mappers around the world.
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Sean Askay (Google, Inc.)
Google Earth serves as a powerful platform for visualizing dense spatio-temporal datasets, as demonstrated by published and forthcoming KML projects presented during this talk. In particular, Map the Fallen (published on Memorial Day 2009) is a visualization of the 5500+ US and international soldiers that have died in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001.
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Jon Voss (LookBackMaps),
Barbara Hui (UCLA/UCHRI)
Old stuff can be sexy too! An overview of various efforts to geotag publicly available historical photos, organize them in a useful fashion, and keep them free and accessible to machines and humans. Includes demonstration of web and mobile applications bringing history to life on the map. We consider noncommercial models to promote mapping within historical and cultural preservation.
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Ben Lewis (Harvard University)
The colonial powers have been mapping Africa and the rest of the world for hundreds of years, but this valuable public spatial material is not accessible. Meanwhile our favorite Web 2.0 mapping tools lack historical depth. We will present the AfricaMap project as a start toward a solution and will describe a plan to enable map collections around the world to inexpensively publish spatially.
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Doug McCune (SpatialKey & Universal Mind)
In this session, attendees will learn how Dr. Clionadh Raleigh, a researcher with the International Peace Research Institute, and her Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project team created a better understanding of conflicts in developing countries by analyzing the relationships between combatants, social groups, economies and natural phenomena using web-based location-intelligence software.
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