O'Reilly Where 2.0 Conference 2010
2010-03-30..2010-04-01
San Jose, United States
who it's for
location-based service developers, mobile app developers, geospatial engineers, civic technologists, product managers (location products), startup founders
topics
foursquare venue APIs; real-time crisis mapping; open cities API standards; mobile geolocation SDKs; WiFi-based geolocation; drone live-video streaming; multimaster geospatial databases; augmented reality location games; turn-by-turn offline navigation; crowdsourced place data; heatmaps and point clustering
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Parrot AR.Drone: Wireless, Video and Gaming Converge | Martin Lefebure | 14m |
Parrot AR.Drone is a consumer quadcopter that streams live video to an iPhone over Wi‑Fi and uses the iPhone accelerometer for motion control, proving… | ||
| Location Debate | Michael Arrington, Tim O'Reilly | 25m |
Argues that competing head-on with a dominant search player often fails and companies should exploit real assets instead of being a me-too, citing PayPal as a… | ||
| City Data | Chris Vein, Tim O'Reilly | 20m |
City releases about 130 datasets and counts about 30 apps built on them, with roughly half of the data and apps focused on transportation-heavy problems; the… | ||
| Adventures in Mobile Social 2.0: Twelve Months of foursquare | Dennis Crowley | 19m |
foursquare reports concrete results: launched March, ~1M users and ~22M check-ins in a year, 60 third‑party apps on a working API, badges and mayorships that… | ||
| The Map as an Information Ecology | Blaise Aguéra y Arcas | 19m |
Bing Maps presents a spatial canvas that binds user photos, aerial and street imagery, and apps into a single info layer. It stitches oblique 45° aerial shots… | ||
| Geostreams | Othman Laraki | 16m |
Twitter adds geo-tagged tweets and basic place tagging (neighborhoods) plus local trends, builds infrastructure to merge massive disparate datasets, and opens… | ||
| Ovi by Nokia Bringing Social and Local Together | Michael Halbherr | 14m |
Nokia makes navigation a built-in phone feature, shipping free turn-by-turn navigation on 12 handsets across 180 countries with routing in ~80 countries and 50… | ||
| The New Meaning of Mapping | Michael Jones | 17m |
Maps become interactive place browsers: Google Translate converts the Rosetta-like text into 52 languages in under a minute, Google Earth has Google Earth: 600… | ||
| Veriplace Location Aggregation Platform | Tasso Roumeliotis | 05m |
Claims a cloud-based API called Veriplace that can remotely locate 150 million phones including iPhone without a downloaded app and without the user running… | ||
| Crisis Communication 2.0 - Real-time Civilian Protection | Zubin Wadia | 06m |
A real-time civilian protection platform that claims to push smartphone-optimized HTML5/WebKit alerts and route plans into the hands of millions, focusing on… | ||
| Getting to Know SimpleGeo | Matt Galligan | 05m |
SimpleGeo exposes a hosted location backend: a custom Gizelle multi-master geospatial DB built on Cassandra with writes replicated to three data centers and… | ||
| Mobzombies & Arcade Games in the Real World | Will Carter | 05m |
Mob Zombies is a place-based arcade game that maps Forsquare venue data into playable levels, using the Forsquare API and accelerometer-based controls on… | ||
| Open WiFi Geolocation with Geomena | Adam Duvander | 04m |
Geomena is an open WiFi geolocation database that claims coverage for millions of access points and exposes a writable API so developers can build tools to… | ||
| Virtual Tourism Through Mapping | Tyler Malin | 06m |
Built a multi-camera SA9 rig that outputs 2K capture and also produces a conventional broadcast master, solves parallax by shooting into mirrors, and finishes… | ||
| Crisis Mapping | Andrew Turner | 05m |
Satellite and smartphone data get framed as fun location apps but the claim here is operational: governments report ~80% of data is location-based and 74% of… | ||
| App Store is For Suckers | Jonathan Stark | 05m |
Argues that the App Store siphons developer effort away from high‑impact web work, citing a native Haitian Creole translator trapped in approval for weeks… | ||
| Have Chickens, Need Lasers! | Martin Isenburg | 05m |
An urban farm project buys a house for $127,000, installs three chickens and a custom farm computer, then wires the property for real-time streaming to… | ||
| Making Money at a Non-Profit | Sophia Parafina | 05m |
OpenGeo explains how a long‑running nonprofit financed for nine to ten years shifts to self‑sufficiency by mixing three revenue streams: boutique custom… | ||
| Maps of My Life | Dylan Phillips | 05m |
Built and tested an AR channel on Layer AR browser, deployed to Android and iPhone 3GS but not to original iPhone/iPhone 3G because they lack a compass, and… | ||
| Mobzombies & Arcade Games in the Real World | Will Carter | 05m |
Lists a 15-step process (14 concrete rules) for mobile experiences tied to specific places like barns or gas stations, insisting to never design for both at… | ||
| Where To Point...Oh! | Roland Shield | 05m |
Argues that government behavior centers on three concrete objectives: protect and justify budget, continually increase size and sphere of influence, and… | ||
| Why Your Data Sucks | Paul Ramsey | 05m |
Argues that geodata carries measurable error and gives concrete examples: GPS fixes require a 10 meter 95% error radius (a 60 foot diameter circle), old survey… | ||
| Your Head Isn't a Spatial Database,... | Drew Dara-Abrams | 05m |
Argues that mental maps are systematically distorted and distinct from mapped databases, citing that about 80% of college students misplace San Diego west of… | ||
| Crowdsourcing the Impossible: Ushahidi-Haiti | Patrick Meier | 06m |
A volunteer-run Ushahidi crisis map pulls tweets, Facebook posts, radio calls, Skype calls and high-resolution satellite imagery into a single feed… | ||
| Has Google Really Patented Any LBA? | Nick Mikhailovsky | 06m |
Claims that Google holds a broad patent on LBA are true for filings but miss practical specifics: the built system gathers addresses from US Canada and UK… | ||
| Location Intelligence Down Under... | Maurits van der Vlugt | 05m |
Australia contains vast empty space and so drives need for remote tools and innovation, while professional culture splits between precision-focused surveying… | ||
| People Suck a Naming Places | Sylvain Carle | 05m |
Claim that people are bad at naming places and a single global ID is unrealistic, so lightweight web‑wide identifiers work better. Built calgary.com and mined… | ||
| Zoom In... Zoom Back | Mark Sherman | 05m |
Zoom Atlas overlays a photorealistic layer on satellite imagery so users can zoom to any square inch and see artist-rendered interiors down to a store aisle or… | ||
| Locative Gaming: The First Ten Years | Kati London | 17m |
Chronological survey of locative games names concrete wins and failures: GPS selective availability off (May 2000) and the first geocache spawn pervasive play… | ||
| The Digital National Map of the United States of America | Mark L. DeMulder | 15m |
The USGS is delivering a nationwide digital base map suite: the geoportal beta and downloads at nationalmap.gov, derived products like U.S. Topo and 20,000… | ||
| Growth of Location | Ted Morgan | 14m |
Skyhook explains a location stack that claims reliable positioning from a database of Wi‑Fi access points covering most developed populations, with 90 million… | ||
| Moving People with Pixels | Josh Williams | 13m |
Gowalla builds a GPS check-in app that uses a passport metaphor, launches an iPhone beta at SXSW 2009, fixes strict GPS rules, and ships Koala 2.0 at SXSW… | ||
| Community First: Yelp's Unconventional Approach... | Jeremy Stoppelman | 20m |
Yelp reports 1.3 million active iPhone users and is north of 10 million reviews, adding roughly a million reviews every 2½–3 months. Spam is a minority but… | ||
| Spatial Analysis and the Geoweb | Jack Dangermond | 22m |
A cloud GIS called ArcGIS Online exposes map services, tiled base maps and APIs so developers mash up authoritative imagery, USGS/topographic tiles and… | ||
| Telling Traces | Deborah Estrin | 14m |
Continuous GPS and accelerometer traces plus GIS mashups power concrete tools: Waze-style sampled traffic, Pier combining Air Resources Board particulate maps… | ||
| What are the Smart Paths for Getting Your LBS App to Market? | Marc Naddell | 07m |
NAVTEQ describes a pipeline that pairs NAVTEQ enhanced 3D City models with GPS and IMU positioning, multi‑view high‑resolution and panoramic 360° cameras and… | ||
| Haiti: CrisisMapping... | Jeffrey Johnson, John Crowley, Schuyler Erle | 15m |
A rapid public release of 8 cm imagery within 26 hours plus UAV and commercial satellite feeds lets volunteers tile imagery and digitize roads and buildings… | ||
| Bridging the Desktop and Mobile Web Divide... | Dave Fetterman | 16m |
Facebook reports rapid mobile growth: 100 million mobile users after successive 2.5x jumps, with mobile users showing about 2x engagement versus desktop. Built… | ||
| Ignite Where | Brady Forrest | 01h 20m |
Fast, scripted five-minute talks run on 20 slides 15 seconds each, then a half-hour startup blitz with 12 startups one minute pitches competing for the North… | ||
| Raffi Krikorian | Raffi Krikorian | 04m |
Twitter moves from per-user geodata to per-tweet geotagging and faces a scaling problem that requires a new service. A reverse geocoder called Rockdove runs… | ||
| Vanessa Fox | Vanessa Fox | 04m |
Practical steps to get real local search traffic: set up and verify your listing, add your business in the Local Business Center, and optimize the Maps entry… | ||
| Seconds to Anywhere | Walter Scott | 14m |
Satellite archive reaches billion square kilometers, roughly seven times land area, with hundreds of revisit images per spot and snapshots taken about every 8… | ||
| Zubin Wadia | Zubin Wadia | 04m |
A prototype called CiviGuard delivers location-aware crisis messaging to smartphones (iPhone, Android, BlackBerry; Windows Phone planned), claiming to turn… | ||
| Rich Gibson | Rich Gibson | 04m |
GigaPan hardware originates from Mars Exploration Rovers work and automates tiled imaging by moving between set corners or doing 360 capture and repeating… | ||
| Matt Galligan | Matt Galligan | 04m |
SimpleGeo launches a cloud location infrastructure that lets developers store, scale, and discover Geo data without running servers, claiming a platform built… | ||
| Patrick Meier | Patrick Meier | 06m |
Ushahidi deploys to Haiti and Chile within hours, spins up an SMS shortcode crowdsourcing pipeline that receives thousands of texts a day, crowdsources… | ||
| Mikel Maron | Mikel Maron | 03m |
Kibera is a dense slum in Nairobi smaller than Central Park and often estimated at up to a million residents but previously a blank spot on online maps. Map… | ||
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