[Geowanking] A9 street-view photo data?

[Mike Liebhold]

Kevin Elliott wrote:

>  how in the world do you have time to go to so many conferences, 
> meetings, and events, yet still make a living? Share the secret ;)


Actually, until this year, I took about 5 years off and went to almost  
-no- conferences. This year, I've been fortunate to receive some nice 
invitations, and so am enjoying my 10 minutes of fame, which should be 
over shortly, if not already. In most cases, I am making excellent 
contacts, and learning things that help my work as a researcher for the 
Institute for the Future <http://www.iftf.org>.

There are lots of cool things to build beyond a geospatial web,  but I 
see the geoweb as the essential foundation for  contextual computing, 
sensor networks, and immersive media, my main foci at IFTF. And, I'm 
just plain impatient to see geodata and geocoded hypermedia widely 
available searchable and usable interoperably, independent of client 
environments, (.eg. Open Source, ESRI, Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, etc. ) 
Also, I'm particularly interested in 'first person',  heads-up, 
augmented video views of geodata, and hypermedia, perhaps through our 
phone-cam viewfinders, or other 'magic window' devices.  Until we have 
this kind of wide access, interoperability, and heads-up functionality, 
I'm likely to continue to speak-up, and may still end-up on a few more 
panels or podiums.

This year, I'm thinking of finding a sponsor, and formally articulating 
a 'Tricorder Challenge'   (perhaps at Where2.0) to geo hackers, search 
engines and  GIS guys, to demonstrate the deepest, richest,  and ideally 
filtered collections and views of -standard- and -interoperable- 
geodata, and hypermedia in a single place. Ideally a tricorder will tell 
us -everything- about  a very narrowly defined place: Here!   Everything 
about the environment,  infrastructures, health and safety, public 
resources, history, culture, commerce, and commentary, decorations, and 
entertainment, available - here-  (wherever )

Cheers-

Mike
 

-Mike


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