[Ossf] Where 2.0 note and materials

Fri Jul 15 00:38:25 CST 2005

Sorry if the following is not of interest to you
but some people has asked for it, so I think I might
just send it to a wider audience .....  T-R

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Dear colleague,

Many of you already knew that I attended the "Where 2.0"
conference on June 29-30 in San Francisco. The attached
file is the note I have kept during/after the conference,
which also includes some useful pointers. I made a rough
presentation based on the note to a group of people
(mostly AS and NTU colleagues who are also into web-mapping
and GIS) this passing Tuesday afternoon.

Ilya has suggested that maybe we can start a mailing list
on web-mapping and GIS. I think this is a good idea and
if you are interested in it, please let me know.

best,
Tyng-Ruey
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Where 2.0 Conference (June 29-30, 2005)

About 500-600 people attend.

Program
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http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/39/program.html

Presentation files
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http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/39/presentations.html

Conference Coverage (press, blog)
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http://www.oreillynet.com/where2005/

=========== Part I ================

Where 2.0
+ "... old business of GIS is about to be disrupted
   big-time by the arrival of Web-based technologies
   that put the power to access, explore, create,
   and enhance digital maps into the hands of average
   people. That's going to change the way people think
   about place and space; it's also going to create
   new opportunies to serve people branded information 
   ..." http://wade.trblogs.com/archives/2005/06/whats_what_at_w.html

+ "... One, we welcome the 'young pups' but maps have
   been cool to us for a long time. Two, there are web
   standards that are emerging from the OGC that you 
   need to carefully understand, appreciate, and use.
   ..." http://www.directionsmag.com/blog/archives/360-At-Where-2.0,-Dangermond-schools-the-young-mappers.html

What google maps are all about?
+ universal coverage (satellite images)
+ rich data sources (road direction; local search)
+ "no plug-in" web interface
+ maps API (hence, "free" maps and services)

Re-mix and Mash-up
+ http://housingmaps.com
  Combine google maps and Cragslist
  Wanted: a real application rather than just a web page.

+ http://www.chicagocrime.org

+ http://supergreg.hopto.org/google-yahoo/
  Combine Google Maps and Yahoo Traffic (traffic.com)
  Traffic.com is a flash application; must get into
  to get XML segment about traffic (not the map)

  Yahoo traffic also has its own traffic map
  http://maps.yahoo.com/traffic

+ http://geepster.com/london.php

+ http://googlesightseeing.com

+ More at http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/

Michael Frumin
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http://www.fundrace.org
http://www.fundrace.org/where2.0/

Do a search on Tim O'Reilly on fundrace to
see he donate US$ 2,000 to John Kerry

See how your neighbors sponsor the candidates.
All campaigning contribution data geo-coded (zip-coded). 

Get real-time access to the dataset in GPS-PDA
to know how read/blue an area is.

Michal Migurski & Eric Rodenbeck 
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MoveOn.org's Virtual Town Hall

Very large groups can participate in shared live events
via interactive ...

Ask for direct, verbal input from the audience
Ask for direct, structured
Questions are displayed on the map, as they come in.
Multiple choice responses are displayed differently ...

This stuff is not so difficult to do as all
6 weeks, 3 people, open source tools, mySQL, php, flash
not GIS people at all
difficulty is in design

If allow 1 min delay in response, it allows more
flexility in design

Fast clarity is: instant recognition,
understanding, and plan for action

Sense of community is: feelings of membership,
influence, needs fulfillment, and shared emotional connection.

A visceral sense of "being there" ...

http://stamen.com

The Confluence Project (Not in Where 2.0)
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http://www.confluence.org/

====== PART II ==========

Udi Manber (A9.com) on visual yellow page
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http://beta.maps.a9.com

Combine street images with maps, and walk
the maps with street images. 
Already have good coverage of San Francisco.

Put camera and GPS on top of a car, driving
around the town. The rest is automatically
processed.

"Is there tape in the camera?" joke about
street imaging in state department DC.

Privacy issues: You pick your noise in
a starbuck and A9 puts the image on the web 
forever.

Mark Smith (VENTANA Research)
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Moving from thousand of analysts to millions of consumers.

Transactions more interesting than geo-data alone.

The tail is wagging the dog. Consumer Driven applications driving
new approach to developing and deploying applications.

Robert Denaro (Navteq)
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Drive there to get first-hand road data.
Found gate (rad block), small wood bridge, and never finished road.
No. of no left-turns in LA, CA from official source: 6,000.
Actually found: 42,000.

Technology:
Differential GPS, IMU/GPS, inclinometer;
video, mobile editing tool.

Video capture and voice file notation
when driving the streets (speed sign, highway sign).
Later processed in digitalization effort.

Regional teams in touch with local authorities for changes.

Application: route-planning Large trucks and vehicles.

Panel: Lightning Cool Tech
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Colin Bulthaup, Squidlabs, LLC, http://www.squid-labs.com
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UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles), in collaboration with Atair Aerospace
MagicWindow
SomkeSquid

Richard Greene, MOTO Development Group, http://www.moto.com 
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Build elevators with synched moving images

Sean Savage, Project PlaceSite, http://PlaceSite.com
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finishing up as a Master project at UC Berkely
field research on WiFi use survey in wireless cafe
Showing who is (was) in the cafe using WiFi.

Tyler Mitchell (author of Web Mapping Illustrated)
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On Open Source Geo Tools

Data Components:
databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL/PostGIS),
files (Shape files, GeoTIFF, GML, CSV/Text),
real-time sources (GPS, Web services, Searches; from applications)

Above them is Geo-spatial Data Abstract Layer (GDAL, C, C++, Python) or
MapServer 

Functional Components:
Data creation, conversion, manipulation, analysis, and visualization.

Check out more information from 
http://maptools.org
http://freegis.org

Jack Dangermond, ESRI
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Emerging Geo-Web Communities

Our World is Evolving Rapidly; It is increasingly complex,
challenging, and crowded.

Geography is the science of our world, ...,
integrating what we know.

GIS is emerging as a new language.

GIS is evolving to a web services environment, ...,
becoming more distributed, open, and developer friendly.

Consuming Mapping & Global Visualization.
Location Based Services.
Focused GIS Applications.

Geo-Web Communities: The Future
+ Everything that changes will be measured & made available
+ Location and tracking services will be ubiquitous
+ Finding geo-services will be easy
+ Spatial tools will be widely available and interoperable
+ Geo-spatial data will dynamically integrated

Tim O'Reilly
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Watch the alpha geeks.

"The future is here. It is just not evenly distributed yet."
William Gibson.

A platform beats an application every time.

O'Reilly calls the platform web2.0 .

Two types of platform:
+ One ring to rule them all
+ Small pieces loosely joined

- An arch of participation means that yours
  help to extend your platform
- Low barriers to experimentation mean that
  the system is "hacker friendly" for maximum

"Windows is just a bag of drivers"
+ The Win32 API meant developers didn't
have to write their own device drivers
+ What is drivers of web 2.0?

Web 2.0 will be built from a network of cooperating data services.
Therefore: Offer web services interfaces and content syndication,
and re-use the data services of others.

First Generation Web Services
+ESRI, MapQuest and MS MapPoint
 - Web services APIs with lots of usage
 - ... but not "hacker friendly"

"My childhood, seen by Google Maps"

Google Map + Cragslist
Google Map + Flickr
gmaptrack

They do not use official google API,
just "screen capping"

Yahoo's Maps "Open Publishing API"

Designing "Remixable" Web APIs
+ Deliver content as XML and behavior as script
+ Augment with metadata to be used by automated tools
+ Jon Udell:
http://webblog.infoworld.com/udell/2005/06/27.html#a1258

What we need to get to the Next stage
+ Users add value
+ Network effects by default
+ Small pieces loosely joined
+ Software above the level of a single device
+ Data is the next Intel Inside

The future is going to be bigger than the past.

Business model will emerge, it just we don't them yet.

========== PART III =================

Paul Levine, Yahoo!
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Local services and the architecture of participation 

Yahoo! Search Vision: 
Enable people to find, use, share, and expand all human knowledge. (FUSE)

FUSE: Local/360 (find a restaurant in SF,
keyword, map, review, reviewers, reservation, etc.)

FUSE: Merchant Listings
(free web page for small business, listings, etc.)

FUSE: Maps API
+ Traffic cameras in SF areas on top of Yahoo maps
+ A "Sideways" adventure in Y! maps
+ standards-based - accepts GeoRSS
+ fully documented and supported
+ http://developer.yahoo.net/maps

FUSE: Flickr/Local
Mappr: Photo-sharing on a Map
Example: Pho Nam

http://ysearchblog.com
http://next.yahoo.com

Josh Knauer (MAYA Design)
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InfoCommons: An Open Platform for Public Data

Update information about one's house to
commercial and federal map data (inaccurate data).

We need a better way for everyone to reuse data.

MAYA is a tech research lab spun from CMU.
Receive 50 million US$ federal money to do research.

Receipt Data Sharing: uforms, attribution, distributed info space, 
(build, reuse, mix and mash), let end-users be contributors.

Working with Brookings Institution to build community info systems.
Building Buskama - public transit info.

Transit data reused for human services systems

Environmental health risks in your community

Build health-related info about food product based
on bar-code. Cell phone is used to capture bar-code
and transit info.

Technical docs and open APIs available

http://www.maya.com/web/index.mtml
http://www.maya.com/infocommons

http://www.maya.com/web/what/papers/maya_lucas_civium_vp10sep03.pdf
http://www.maya.com/web/what/papers/maya_lucas_civ_cmu_16apr03.ppt

Geoff Palmer (uLocate)
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The Power of Where

uLocate is an integrate media company that develops
and deploys carrier class location-based services
for the consumers and enterprise markets.

3 established lines of business
+ finder applications
+ geo-tagged imaging
+ premium SMS location services

products and services
+ Finder Services
  - MapQuest Find Me
    Share your location information with trusted others
+ GeoSnapper
  - use a camera phone to take picture and send it to a web site
  http://www.geosnapper.com
+ Another service to keep track of your pets

http://www.ulocate.com/
http://www.where.com/

Panel: Obstacles in the Mobil Platform
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Russell Beattle (moderator)

Peter Distler (Sprint), 
Technology solutions are improving, only a few are commercial grade.
Operations must deliver a high quality performance environment.
Location application partners must deliver higher quality applications
  that serve the needs of subscribers.
Market offers must differentiate across customer segments
  at prices that reflects inherent value
Sprint owns all data.

Mary Foltz (Nextel Communications), 
developer.nextel.com
uLocator as partner for "find me"

Carl Shimer (Orange),
Carrier is the largest obstacle.
API in the handset, especially about GPS.

Hassan Wahla (TeleNav, Inc.), 
Billing (carrier billed vs developer biller,
bundled data and service or separate fees)
Application downloading (preloaded, etc.)

Greg McGuire
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Dude, Where's is Our Car?

Intelligent car sharing.

14,000 members, double every 10 month.

Don't have GPS in the car. 

Use open source tools in their solution.

http://www.zipcar.com/

Nathan Eagle (PostDoc at MIT media lab)
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Modelling Complex Social Systems

100 Nokia 6600s with Contect logging software
+ Location:
+ Bluetooth: proximate bluetooth devices every 5 min
+ Communication: Phone call/text log

Total Data: Over 450,000 hours continuous human behavior data collected

Prediction of user behaviors based on previous actions

+ Voice is the domain mode of communication
+ Applications such as the clock are used more at home
  - Media lab students snooze more than Sloan students
    (2.4 times/day v.s. 6 times/day

+ AutoDiary (by Cell Tower ID)
  - How much 
+ Prediction

Friendship vs. Proximity Networks

Self-report friendship vs. proximity data
Can predict who's friend is who based on proximity data

Organizational Rhythms

BlueDar: Bluetooth Radar
+Currently Deployed around MIT to detect who are around places and when

Privacy issues: carriers will not give users data, but
the data may be used later (by authority, for example)
to against him. Let users get their data.

http://web.media.mit.edu/~nathan/

Stephen Randall (LocaModa Inc.)
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Connecting Bricks, Clicks & Pockets

"Push" is only good for Hollywood and carriers.

The hard way into the device. (Too many OS, different screen size, 
bluetooth or not, blackberry - e-mail or not?)

The Volksphone Myth. 

ONE handed use. 
TWO billion handsets.
THREE 'Mindless Click'

Proximity. User quite good at working work the context.
The Forth Screen: TV, Web, *Phone*, & Out-of-Home (billboard).

Affinity. Safety Zone. User/Community Centric.
Users has control of their phone, can turning off phone. trust.

Availability. Here, now & Simple.
Instant gratification. Low tech for now.

"pull" -signals that show the way.

+ text messaging catching up in US teens
+ TiVo inflection point for TV advertising
+ Cannot Spam now. it is illegal
+ SIMON MALLS touches two billions consumers a year
+ WAL*MART the largest people network

Scenario
- interactive retail networks
- wireless graffiti (WIFFITI) networks
- interactive bar networks

http://www.locamoda.com/

Panel: Privacy and Location Data
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Ross Stapleton-Gray (moderator)

Pamela Samuelson, 
Principal concepts of privacy
+ Spatial privacy
+ communication privacy
+ information privacy: controlling access to and uses of
  personally identifiable information (PII) in particular when
  it is in the hand of 3rd party.

Location-based software may raise all three kinds of privacy issues

Is Privacy Possible?
+ technical design choices
+ notice to and consent of customers
+ flushing data from system once no further need for it
+ Licensing terms with the other developers
+ new legislation or rulemaking

Why respect privacy
+ it's a right thing to do
+ your reputation will be mud if you don't and word gets out
+ to have a competitive edge in the market
+ self-regulation is probably better the best way to
  avert gover't regulation
+ sooner or later, regulation is likely so you might
  as well be ahead of 

Chris Ridder,

David Rivas

Kevin Slavin
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Big Games: large-scale, multi-player, real-world games

CONQWEST
http://homepages.nyu.edu/~dc788/conqwest/

PacManhattan
http://pacmanhattan.com//

More at
http://www.playareacode.com/

Panel: Social Applications
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Julian Bleecker (Prof. USC),
+ casual games: have some social component, and have some game component

Paul Bragiel (Meetro),
+ different usage of social network: to kill to hours at the airport, etc.
+ social networks: can be turned off and energized

http://www.meetro.com/index.php

Elizabeth S. Goodman (researcher, Intel),
+ different ages have different needs
+ a lot of time in our life is not to know new people ...
+ a lot of choices by instinct, not based on social profile, 
+ not necessary social network, but social life
+ more interesting things happen that don't depend on 
  social profiles as people lie or don't understand one's need
+ give user information , do not make choices for them
+ better not to keep user data, all data at user's cellphone

http://confectious.net/

Dennis Crowley (dodgeball.com),
+ dodgeball.com starts as an application for oneselves, then
  for friends, and friends of friends
+ social bugs difficult to solve, not the technology one
+ a lot of social software need fix
+ dodgeball is used a way to be away of people
+ when the devices are less intrusive, it is more interesting

Panel: Retooling Developers for Geospatial
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David Sonnen (moderator, ISSI),

Christoper C. Couper (IBM)
Steve Lombardi (Microsoft)
Dave McIlhagga (DM Solutions Group, Inc.)

IBM DB2 now comes with spatial analysis.

Balaji B. Prasad (EDS)
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Reinventing the Wheels: The Future of the Computer in Your Car 

The future is closer than it appears:
Materials, Machines, Information, Communication,
Human-machine interface, Human beings

Car has a life cycle of 10-15 years, IT for 2 years.
Cannot upgrade car with new technology.

Ronald J. Ondrejka 
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The Role of the First Spy Satellites