Infrastructures for the Geospatial Web for NSGIC National States Geographic Information Council Marc

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Infrastructures for the Geospatial Web for
NSGIC - National States Geographic Information
CouncilMarch 21, 2006

• Michael Liebhold / Senior Researcher
• Institute for the Future

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Institute for the Future our roots

• Founded in 1968
• Spin-off of the RAND Corporation
• Methodologies to forecast the future, applied to
  business, government, and nonprofits
• Our founders
• Paul Baran
• Olaf Helmer
• Jacques Vallée

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what we do
Foresight ? Insights ? Action
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2004 trends
Source Institute for the Future
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some IFTF clients
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Infrastructures for the Geospatial Web for
NSGIC - National States Geographic Information
CouncilMarch 21, 2006

• Michael Liebhold / Senior Researcher
• Institute for the Future

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A Geospatial Web

• Layered Geodata
• Geospatial hypermedia
• Augmented perception
• Invisible attributes become visible
• Sentient landscapes
• Context-aware computing

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devices for augmented perception
geocoded data information
geolocation techniques
geo information integration
geospatial literacy
Geoweb geospatial ecosystem
geodata search
geospatial policies
software ecologies
geospatial standards
location-aware services
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geolocation techniques

• Location-Sensing Networks
• (e.g., E911)
• They already know where we are, but cant or
  wont tell us, yet.

• Location-Aware Software
• Triangulates signals strength of known radio
  sources (e.g.,Wi-Fi access points)
• Location Aware Devices
• Identifies client location (e.g., GPS)

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devices for augmented perception

• Smart phones PDAs

• Automobile computers

• Body extensions

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location-aware services

• Walled gardens
• Carrier services
• Enterprise services
• Google Earth
• MS Virtual Earth

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First Person Geography
New Usage paradigms
Hood-mounted video
dashboard graphics
Sony xyz
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geospatial standards and policies

• Standards
• Geocodes for hypermedia
• APIs for device location
• ( guarded by carriers)
• Geolocation beacon databases
• OpenGIS GML/WMS/WFS
• And more including, gps, geospatial metadata,
  scalable vector graphics, etc.

• Policies
• Personal Privacy
• Public access to public geodata

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geodata search

• Clearinghouses
• Gateways
• Repositories
• Namespaces
• Geoweb servers

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Geospatial Readiness
25 Available geospatial infrastructure (Wi-Fi,
GPS availability and use) 25 Presence of
geospatial data (Topographic maps, digital
mapping initiatives, environmental mapping,
etc.) 20 Precursor usage (Internet use and
cellular penetration rates) 20 Public access to
data (Presence and quality of national
clearinghouses) 10 Geospatial literacy (Used
basic literacy rates as a proxy)

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90
80
70
RUSSIA
ARGENTINA
CHINA
60
50
Relative Index
LATVIA
40
INDIA
30
SAUDI ARABIA
VIETNAM
EGYPT
PAKISTAN
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ALGERIA
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0
0
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40
60
80
100
120
140
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a geoweb software industry ecology

geo web client
mobile OSs

sony
Google
wireless auto runtime platform
Palm
Brew
Microsoft
Flash
Java
Symbian
Yahoo
Ajax
Platial?
Windows CE
ESRI
geolocation utilities
Intel
Microsoft
Skyhook
geospatial middleware tools
MapInfo
Webraska
Autodesk
MS Mappoint
Integraph
ESRI
Oracle
IBM
generic suppliers
sun
all assumptions approximate
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an open software ecology
New Spatial Usage Models

geoRSS GML XML RDF
Next- Generation Mapping
Web Users Experiments
mapping
hypermedia



SOAP /UDDI Web Services
RESTful Web services




User Geocoded Web
Geocoded Legacy Web
Conversion Rendering
Legacy Geospatial Data
Open GIS GeoServers
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Usage Computational Grids
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Integrated GIS Web Hypermedia

• New Visualizations
• Rendering alignment
• Semantic alignment
• Lightweight distributed processes
• Geodata services

Realtime Cubic Cartography
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The Rise of Personal Cartography
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ground truthempowering people in place
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Why is Free Geodata Important?
Civic Mapping for ordinary people
Mumbai Free Map
San Francisco Indyvoters
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pathmakingcreating spatial memory
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at-risk ecologies

• Eco-tourism
• Greenmapping
• Indigenous mapping

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Microzone Advertising
Geo Demographics
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Geospatial Spam!
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secure places

• Critical infrastructures
• High-profile events
• Crime watch
• Emergency response

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health zones

• Epidemiological environmental maps
• Health resources
• Risky places
• People at risk

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pixel viewsfragmenting places and spaces
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built environments

• Fleet management
• Supply chain
• Manufacturing
• Facilities management

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transparencymaking the invisible visible
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subversionplaying with convention
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urban computing

• Pervasive Gaming
• Locative Art
• Social networking

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geospatial literacy
understanding, creation, and use of spatial
information

• Navigation
• Describing phenomena

• Problem solving

• Artistic creation