Talk given at the March RMIUG. "The Geoweb Tsunami" by Duncan McCall

1. Where is everything?The Geoweb TsunamiDuncan McCallDuncan@dcmccall.com

3. What is the geoweb?

4. Local 2.0

6. Career mostly focused on internet / tech

7. Lots of startup hell / happiness

10. Must be an technology solution? +

11. + = ??

12. Location Aware Device Explosion The Social Internet Mapping & Local Info ‘geoweb’ User Generated Content

13. What is this “Geoweb”?

14. Mapping & GIS Cartography / Mapping GIS (Geographic Information Systems)

15. Online Evolution of Mapping?

17. Breakthrough? 2005 + API

18. “Crowdsourcing”

20. Crowdsourcing in the Geoweb

21. Geosearch

22. Geoweb - crowdsourcing OpenStreetMap

23. Google OpenStreetMap December 3, 2007 July 7, 2009

24. OSM – Port-au-Prince, Haiti

25. Open Street Map – A year in edits..

27. Great migration underway… Analog to Digital Offline to Online

28. Mobile?

29. Augmented reality?

30. The ones to watch?

31. What about the future?

33. Renewable energy (check back in 10yrs)

34. RFID (almost finally!)

35. 1 to 1 personalization (not really)

37. The Location aware Web GPS UWB RFID Wi-Fi Cell towers

38. The Realtime Web Blogging! Geotagging! Buzzing! Checking in! Updating! Tweeting! Local! News!

39. Will have the ability to know where everything is - and what is happening - all the time

40. In summary ... a wild ride ahead!

41. Thank you! Duncan McCallDuncan@dcmccall.com