welcome to the world of the geo-data silo

Welcome To The World Of The Geo-Data SiloGary Gale, Director Ovi Places Registrygary.gale@nokia.comSociety of Cartographers Summer School Manchester, September 201053.443375,-2.214174

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KELLYLEEBARRETT on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/kellylee/4177529745/

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Gary Gale on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/vicchi/4414198544/

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Changua Coast Conservation Action on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/waders/3177090710/

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Nad on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/nad/386051891/

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Boson Nova on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/bosonnova/3250298799/

mapping and locating ourselves and the world

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Newsbie Pix on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/newsbiepix/4235304729/

??? bc - smoke signals

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ohad* on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/ohadby/4119933035/

3200 bc – celestial navigation

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Adelaide Archivist on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/adelaide_archivist/3172908079/

1000 bc – homing pigeons

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Sebastian Niedlicj (Grabthar) on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/42311564@N00/2292118012/

1100 bc – magnetic compass

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elefthis1 on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/61288890@N00/2141540887/

1300 – mappa mundi

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normanbleventhalmapcenter on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/normanbleventhalmapcenter/2674855383/

circa 1600

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caveman on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/caveman_92223/3185534518/

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perpetualplum on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/perpetualplum/2866054138/

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Happychopper on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/happychopper/345096825/

1900 – radio triangulation

17John_Dulaney on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/15046584@N08/1562794445/

1960 - gps

182Tales on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/stigster/3761714132/

1990 – portable gps

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2000 – “smart” phones

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2009 – LBS apps

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2010 – But Where’s The Map?

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25Dunechaser on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/dunechaser/163959411/

data, data, everywhere

26bionicteaching on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/bionicteaching/2920562020/

27Chris Torres on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/ctorresphoto/3427060086/

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Apocalypse_vasnetsov.jpg

the four horseman of the geopocalypse

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:BambergApocalypseFolio014rFirstHorseman.JPG

the first horseman - pestilencethe first horseman – data silos

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international commercial data

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national commercial and open data

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international crowd-sourced open data

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national open data

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specialist and niche commercial data

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social network crowd-sourced data

36Zoom Zoom on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/zoomzoom/304135268/

(data) silos (lots of them)

37sporkwrapper on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/sporkwrapper/264250038/

(not so) unique identifiers

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:BritLibAddMS35166ApocalypseUnkFolio2SealRedHorse.jpg

the second horseman - warthe second horseman – licensing

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“Everyone wants free,open, high quality geodata and no one wantsto pay for it”

“The (Geo) Data Dichotomy Dilemma”Gary’s Bloggage, November 2009http://www.vicchi.org/2009/11/16/the-geo-data-dichotomy-dilemma/

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Dru Bloomfield on Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/athomeinscottsdale/3279949186/

proprietary and closed licensing

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mafleen on Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/mafleen/4858606716/

open licensing

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mofo on Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/yomofo/6681546/

licensing isn’t always what it seems

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Ted Rheingold on Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/bmindful/113996138/

some licenses are viral

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“As an OSM activist and commercialcartographer both, I find myselfusing OS OpenData more andmore… yet have never even startedusing OSM data for commercialpurposes”

Richard Fairhurst commenting on “Cartographically Speaking; Data (Lots), Maps (Not So Much),Problems (Many)”Gary’s Bloggage, July 2010http://www.vicchi.org/2010/07/30/cartographically-speaking-data-lots-maps-not-so-much-problems-many/

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dieu_en_majesté.jpg

the third horseman - faminethe third horseman – derivation

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http://cheezburger.com/View/3944760320

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:BambergApocalypseFolio016rForthHorseman.JPG

the fourth horseman - deaththe fourth horseman – co-mingling

48Zoom MadreMia!!! on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/rebeccacowser/3913497067/

co-mingling

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Durer_Revelation_Four_Riders.jpg

the inaccurate fifth horseman - pestilencethe inaccurate fifth horseman – i’m here not there

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Yufu Lin on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/yufujamar/3383400631/

geo-babel

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possible solution # 1

David on Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/cdell/548548453/

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William Murphy on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/infomatique/3959890868/

license harmonization

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Martin Cathrae on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/suckamc/2560335775/

some licenses will always be restrictive or closed

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and despite community licenses like Creative Commons

http://creativecommons.org/choose/results-one?license_code=by-sa&jurisdiction=&version=3.0&lang=en

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and the open database license

http://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/

58Zoom Zoom on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/zoomzoom/304135268/

more silos in the making

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Simon Booth-Lucking on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/simonbooth/4791803924/

some people just don’t like licenses

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possible solution # 2

Leo Reynolds on Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/lwr/3992825492/

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open database of places

Tom Magliery on Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/mag3737/1914076277/

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http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/17/open-database-places/

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there may be trouble ahead

Tobias C. Jensen on Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/toby87/3614063326/

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“realizing this goal will take an eon in Internet time unless we see an unanticipated outbreak of altruism on the part of a data supplier”

Tyler Bell, “Why check-ins and like buttons will change the locallandscape”, O’Reilly Radar, May 2010http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/05/check-ins-like-buttons-will-ch.html

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and …

Leo Reynolds on Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/lwr/32256861/

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Chris Henden on Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/recurrence/6271033/

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N-Plex?

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london ohio

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london ontario

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london united kingdom

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no news-stands?

Pirate Alice on Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/piratealice/2056491590/

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easy and orange?

Christopher Doyle on Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/irishflyguy/2425063737/

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Chris Henden on Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/recurrence/6271033/

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possible solution # 3

Mario Kilngemann Reynolds on Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/quasimondo/2358017289/

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open database of identifiers

Elizabeth Skene on Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/skene/3874882162/

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nrivera on Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/nrivera/3158814786/

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Gary Gale, Director Ovi Places Registrygary.gale@nokia.comtwitter.com/vicchi