How Open Mapping technology and processes are changing the established mapping industry

1. The Cathedral and the GPS
A Personal View
Ed Parsons

4. The Inspiration..
The Cathedral and the
Bazaar
Eric S. Raymond

5. “Given enough eyeballs, all
bugs are shallow”

6. The Cathedral The Bazaar ?

8. democratising
technology..

9. The era of the Pro-Am..

10. supernova 1987a

11. February 23, 1987

16. The long tail of Geodata
Corporate
Potential Community generated
The Current Geoweb

18. Is anybody listening ?
• “COI welcomes the opportunity to work
with OPSI in developing experimental
partnerships between user-generated
sites and major departments. “
• “Subject to resources being available,
OPSI is keen to work with the trading
funds and HM Treasury to evaluate the
potential impact of a more enabling
stance for non- commercial re-use, to
encourage experimentation and
innovation.”
• “Ordnance Survey will look very
seriously over the coming weeks at the
recommendation to launch Open
Space.”

19. OSM still to do...

20. Tom Tom Share - 10m potential surveyors !!
Image Source : PocketGPSWorld

22. Thank you!
ed@blakeparsons.com
www.edparsons.com