Who are the players in the geosphere?

Open source GIS; there is no turning back

Map making tools: Open Street Maps

Map making tools: Styling Base Layers

Rectifying historic maps - NYPL Map Rectifier beta

Stamen Design: Using Open Maps to Visualize Data

Flickr Account in Google Earth

Cartifact creates interactive maps with a view window

FortiusOne brings Visual Intelligence to business

geocommons helps you create and share maps quickly

New Orleans Community Data Center: Public Schools

Trulia: A Real Estate web service leveraging the mashup

Neighborhood Maps: Historic Properties in Logan Square

Twitter can be used for public transportation notices and allows people to communicate in real-time

Twitter tweets can be mapped and integrated with data

CTA Tweet is a twitter application for real-time messaging

Mobile location-based data maps circulation patterns

Sense Networks: Cell phone location-based service

We are moving in the direction of location-based data sold as a software-as-a-service

application

Information is distributed through online mapping

High resolution Aerial Imagery can be displayed in stereo

Devices and software enable people to send messages and images in real-time to their

network

Communities can self-organize and people can self-publish

Communities can self-organize and people can self-publish

Eye-Fi is a memory card that will geo-tag and upload

Eye-Fi enables you to instantly map photos of a place

Social Networks bring people together

Organizations and municipalities want to utilize social networks to better communicate

with citizens

Maps, Collaboration tools & Social Networks

are going to blend

Social media and web-based mapping tools are changing the way we discover & communicate

about the built environment