So today is the day that the Nexus One arrives, which everyone agrees is a *big deal*.
Not exactly fresh news, but you might not know that Andrew Eland, the Google UK Mobile Team Lead, is speaking at this month’s #geomob coming on January 21st.
Want to know more about Android, Google, geo and mobile? Signup here:
http://gmdlondon.ning.com/events/geomob-january
Part two of videos from the geoweb stream at the AGI GeoCommunity Conference 2009 – Andy Allan talking about innovative uses of OpenStreetMap data.
Expect similar at tomorrow’s #GeoMob meetup, a few slots left here.
Andy Allan – Crystallising Anarchy (Innovative Uses of OpenStreetMap Data) from Christopher Osborne on Vimeo.
This September, I had the pleasure of chairing the inaugral geoweb stream at the AGI GeoCommunity 09 Conference. Over the next few months I will be releasing videos of the best talks here for all to see. First up, is the talented Tom Taylor, who amongst other things is working on Newspaper Club – a service to help people make their own newspapers. I recently had the luck of contributing a little bit (a map) to the incredibly useful Postcode Paper, made as a demo for the recent data.gov.uk experiments.
Here, Tom is talking about his use of the Flickr alpha shapes and how crowdsourced data can be used to create the shape of neighbourhoods:
[To see more geo related wondery, come along to #Geomob on November 19th.]
Tom Taylor – Crowdsourcing the Shape of Neighbourhoods from Christopher Osborne on Vimeo.
This year I was drafted onto the Association for Geographic Information conference organising committe, to bring all things geoweb to this venerable event. I can also offer reduced day passes to #geomob members wishing to attend, see below.
As Chair of the geoweb stream, I am extremely proud of the strong lineup we have put together. From big players in the Web2.0 world, small internet startups, and old hands from the GI world it really reflects how mainstream the geoweb is becoming. Indeed, the two distinguished keynote speakers for this year, Andrew Turner and Peter Batty, will be talking about the ‘How Neogeography Killed GIS’ and ‘The Geospatial Revolution’, respectively.
Photo credit http://sigizmund.com/
In the geoweb stream we have Terry Jones talking about the just released FluidDB, the database with the heart of a wiki, which looks like it might just be *the next big thing* on the internet. I was lucky enough to host him talk at #geomob in January, an attention grabbing speaker working on some amazing technology. Worth the ticket price alone.
Other marvellous geoweb talks include -
Tom Taylor on ‘Crowdsourcing the Shape of Neighbourhoods’ with Flickr alphashapes.
Andy Allan on ‘Creative Uses of OpenStreetMap Data’
John McKerrell on ‘OpenStreetView’ (when do you launch John?)
Peter Miller on ‘Location Specific Promotion of Public Transport’ (*disclaimer: he’s my boss*)
And the fantastically titled ‘Human Sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria’ from Martin Daly. (Bonus points to those who spot the reference). There are many more besides these, check the full programme here.
And an exclusive discount for #geomob members, get a day pass at the rate normally reserved for AGI members. Click here and remember to select ‘#geomob member’ as your registration type.
Gary Gale introduces Yahoo! Fire Eagle at #Geomob
Signup for the #Geomob London Geo/Mobile Developers Meetup here to stay informed
Back in September I started looking around the London web scene for a meetup group of like-minded Geo geeks and was pretty surprised to find that none existed. The Valley has a flourishing meetup scene, in London we’re getting there but its still very much in its infancy. After a great chat with Catherine Burton who runs the Web2.0 Mapping Meetup group in the Valley I decided it was time to create something similar here in olde London town.
So, the #Geomob event (or London Geo Mobile Developers Meetup if you prefer the full title) was conceived. After a couple of months of incessant networking, virtual stalking and a fair amount of pleading I had assembled a red hot lineup and a venue, all we needed now was an audience. Well, we weren’t disappointed and with a turn out of around 40 developers from the London geo scene including Nestoria, CloudMade, Yahoo!, not to mention our lovely hosts Google and many others.
Big ‘thank you’ to Google for hosting us, not only did they give us a great venue but lots of snacks and all important beer. They will be presenting at the next event (tail end of January 2009) so stay tuned to hear more from them.
An event is nothing without its speakers and our trio of geo experts really set the bar high, you can experience their wonderful talks in video below. Its a bit quiet so turn up the volume.
First off we had Gary Gale from Yahoo! introducing the really exciting location broker service, Fire Eagle:
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Next was Nick Black of CloudMade who ran through some great examples of customised mapping and gave a few hints as to where they were headed (hint: ROUTING):
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To cap off a wonderful first night we had Andrew Grill asking “What Will it Take for Mobile Advertising to Find Itself?”
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It didn’t end there, lets just say a few beers were had after.
Feel like reading more? There are reviews over at the Google UK Developers Blog, Yahoo! Geo Technologies Blog and London Calling. Full picture gallery here and here.
Signup for the #Geomob meetup here.