[Geowanking] Fwd: [OGC Press Release] Mash-up event to unite leading minds from the geographic information industry

[Mike Liebhold]

Adam Hill wrote:

> I am stunned, do they have any idea what they are getting themselves 
> into? :)

Hi Adam,

I'm not suprised at all. I atended another Ordnance Survey  meeting two 
weeks ago called Terra Future and was pleasantly suprised at how 
enlightened the Ordnance Survey is.  Almost everyone I met knew and 
spoke nicely about  open mapping mashups, tagging, georss, semweb, tech 
and  heads-up views of geodata.

 Here are a few notes:

-  There were lots of people from the UK  gov there, and I heard from 
many that public access to geodata is gettting lots of cabinet level  
attention as part of an overall examination of  larger issues re: 
public  access to public data. Over drinks the night  before it became 
clear  that OS is acutely aware of the benefits of free access, so I 
didn't  really flame them during my talk the next day. They 'get it' and 
are  trying to figure out how to balance with their legacy mandate to 
become  self sufficient.

-Victoria Lawrence, Ordnance Survey CEO told me she is horrified that 
\the US has outsourced the US geodata onestop to ESRI. ( me too)

- (Sir) Tim Berners Lee talked in his keynote almost exclusively about 
setting up  SPARQL (http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-sparql-query/)  
intermediate servers  for discovery and access to geodata residing 
behind proprietary servers e.g US geodata onestop - arc ims/sde 
servers.   IMHO timbl is naive on the order of magnitude effort that 
will take. Nonetheless, Ordnance Survey  is already  doing this  on an 
experimental basis.

- A breakout group on applications of semantic web tech on geospatial 
computing  was jammed.

- Ordnace Survey also set kind of mini fair where researcherrs set up 
poster talks. One of my favorites was a 'magic window' tablet with a 
camera, that shows ArcGis files floating on top of a video view of the 
realworld.

Ordnance Survey is also co-sponsoring another great upcoming conference: 
Terra Cognita workshop on a geospatial semantic web November 6, Athens 
Georgia - 
http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/partnerships/research/research/terracognita.html

Cheers~

Mike Liebhold






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