Thursday, May 15, 2008

where 2.0 Day 2 13 May 2008. conference

It a sunny much warmer morning in Bay Area.

9am – utilizing mapping, google map disaster relief works.
OpenStreetMap (OSM) http://www.openstreetmap.org/
Utilizing available online services such as twetter, sms geo chat, InsTEDD + HumanLink, etc.

915am Eye-Fi – making geotagging effertless. http://www.eye.fi/ eye-fi is wireless card in digitl camera to connect/uploud to wifi & to services like flicr, etc. Integrated with wayport http://www.wayport.com/ (10k hotsport in US).
(can apply for cradle grant – inventorized South East Asia hotspot :)

930am http://www.frogdesign.com/ – form follow function. design object, look landmark, route, maps. form follow emotion. trusted trip content about icon design, guide users etc. Personalize travel guide (product). (what about a visitor arried at airport buy the simcard with gps chip & the card guide/advice where&where to go :)
Merian Scout navigator UI (ggogle)

940am – http://www.djangoproject.com/ http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/GeoDjango – houston crime maps etc. web application onlie. commoditization technology :) nerd centric presentation :)

955am – your car get an API - your content in the car – dash – dynamic search API, http://www.dash.net/
(cool!!!)

10am – NAVTEQ we only been about where – http://www.navteq.com/
mobile information revolution, pushing contents to users.
locally relevant. navteq is enabler. horizontal vs vertical. Asia LBS challenge in Spore (2008). http://www.navteq.com/developer

break 45min (chat with UCLA researcher doing vrml for history on google)

11am – http://www.flickr.com/ – tagging & geocoding, proximity,

1115am – www.locationware.org – lOCATION Able channels. www.geocaching.com drive highly relevant contents. KISS (keep it simple stupid).
collaboratuion – mozilla labs + skyhook wireless

1125am – groundspeak / geocaching – www.geocaching.com
geo gaming. whereigo (creating media rich experience) experience geo caching game to content development
jeremy@groundspeak.com

1137am – PlatnetEye GeoData – crawler
structuring image to relevant data
standard of addresses – varies between countaries,
low resolution geo coding, ???
challenge to match address to the same location
flaw in current visualization technique
Retrieval of dataset
juan@planetEye.com

115pm – google map demo – 9 features announcements. google maps is google.
google is updating more enabling layers (indexing services such as wikipedia and pictures) in mapping and searching options capability. web on google map. enabling user read news on google maps. bring contents on maps, vizualization.bring from geo web data.

140pm – history joker pt 3

150pm – VC venrock http://www.venrock.com/
http://nextwave.com/
geo is impacting many industries
stressing PND important USD30bil in US.
area of interest:
geomobile
geocar (new media company)

210pm – http://www.openlocation.org/
twitter vision local
about location and proximity
about increasing access to opportunity
GeoHash

220pm – what did public interest on satellite
integrate satellite imagery
orbinal marketing scheme
realtime imagery

235pm – locating handset
http://developer.wavemarket.com/veriplace/about

245-250pm – autodesk digital cities
http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?id=11053875&siteID=123112

3pm – breaks – visualization add up map. the challenge in not just accuracy but relevant and visualizing stunning map on geo sense, what tools needed? and available iconic options .

330pm – INSTEDD - TED – funded google.org
geo info in humanitarian or disaster situations. using available tech

350pm – Lifemapper.com http://www.lifemapper.org/

405pm – google GMM
cell-id – collecting cell power info
gps vs center of the map,
clustering algorithms – gps clustering vs non gps
approximately 300m
collecting info about cell tower
improve accuracy, to use Android, Gear (SDK)
http://code.google.com/android/

420pm – http://www.freebase.com/
semantically structured data
relevant search http://www.metaweb.com/about/mgmtteam.html

435pm – http://www.afrigadget.com/
gis + gps being easier to use
ushahidi (google)
crisis scenario mapping – how to help ngo visualize data


bye

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