Where 2.0 2009
2009-05-19..2009-05-21
San Jose, United States
who it's for
geospatial engineers, mobile developers, data scientists, civic technologists, gis analysts, urban planners, location product managers, startup founders
topics
tile server and vector rendering; Ovi cloud sync for maps; Maps Data API and KML storage; real-time traffic from GPS traces; crowd-sourced mapping workflows; mobile sensor fusion (GPS/Bluetooth/accelerometer); location duration sharing (Glympse); LiDAR mobile mapping rigs; spatio-temporal anomaly detection; open government data integration (DIYcity); panoramic indoor/outdoor imagery; electoral and bubble map visualizations
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| "Unleashin | Michael Halbherr, Christof Hellmis | 16m |
Nokia relaunches maps.ov.com with a lightweight tile server plus a browser plugin that runs the same vector engine as the phones, exposes a map player API for… | ||
| "The Evolving Geoweb" | Steven Lee, Lior Ron | 32m |
Google describes concrete geoweb advances: Google Map Maker opens editing in ~164 countries and users map whole cities in days (one user adds 500+ points on… | ||
| "Location Awareness for the Defense a | Sean Maday | 13m |
Describes a fielded system called Intersect that tracks 900 air mobility missions a day and tens of thousands of deployed personnel by ingesting web-based… | ||
| "Reality Mining for Compan | Alex "Sandy" Pentland | 26m |
Phones instrumented with GPS, Bluetooth, call logs and accelerometers map who meets whom and when, and predict behaviors: business card exchanges in the next… | ||
| "Welcome and Opening Remarks" | Brady Forrest | 02m |
Fifth Where 2.0 conference marks a shift from maps to the use of location as context, noting that early moments included the release of Google Earth and… | ||
| "Where 2.0 Launch Pad" | David Troy, Michele Bowman, Adam Duvander, Yosuke Akamatsu, Martin Flynn, Tom Link, Peter Batty, Eric Gundersen, Noam Bardin | 52m |
Nine short demos and projects show concrete results: Waze launches on Android with 80,000 users in four months, 90% of roads mapped and real‑time traffic from… | ||
| "Ignite Where" | David Felcan, Ahmed Lacevic, Bryan Trussel, Sam Hiatt, Tim Waters, Ariel Waldman, Andrew Weinreich | 40m |
Eight five‑minute lightning demos show concrete systems and launches: Xtify push/pull APIs serves real‑time GPS/cell/MAC location via a JavaScript snippet on… | ||
| "Where, When, Why, and How: Directi | Eric Horvitz | 28m |
A portfolio of location systems that combine Bayesian models, crowd GPS and device streams to predict destinations, route traffic, and schedule services. A… | ||
| "DIY City: An Operating System for C | John Geraci | 10m |
DIYcity.org builds live city services by aggregating open government feeds, Twitter, SMS and cheap sensors into one data ecosystem. Examples include a… | ||
| "Mobile Reality" | Raven Zachary | 22m |
Smartphones now act as a lens into layered data: EveryScape serves panoramic stitched imagery for inside/outside navigation, WikiTude pulls Wikipedia to POIs… | ||
| "Putting a New Spin on | Bruce Hall, Rick Yoder | 16m |
A spinning LiDAR unit built around 64 fixed aligned lasers and dedicated detectors produces a 1.33 million points per second point cloud with 120 m range and… | ||
| "Red State, Blue State: Election | Matthew Ericson | 15m |
Shows exactly what was built for 2008: an interactive homepage map with an Electoral College counter, a county-level bubble map that scales circles by margin… | ||
| "Local Search: Funding Geo" | Danny Sullivan, Tyler Bell, Michael Halbherr, Marc Prioleau, Mark Law | 22m |
CloudMade is pre-revenue and packages OpenStreetMap’s hyperlocal edits for niche app marketplaces; Yahoo! uses geodata to boost engagement and thereby ad CPMs… | ||
| "Decoding the Urban DNA and Harnes | Greg Skibiski | 13m |
Sense Networks processes billions of lat/long/timestamp points to build a place-time index that maps where people come from and go after visiting venues, then… | ||
| "Realizing Spatial Intelligence on | Jack Dangermond | 19m |
ESRI demonstrates that GIS moves from desktop to the web by publishing ArcGIS Server REST services that return JSON and KML, powering mashups and mobile… | ||
| "Wearable Sensory Substitution Device | John Zelek | 14m |
Prototype systems convert camera and GPS data into body-surface cues: an early stereo camera glove maps left/front/right to fingers with vibration intensity… | ||
| "Wild Style City: Breaking the C | Anthony Fassero | 05m |
Wildstyle City maps Earthmine panoramic street imagery into an editable social canvas at wildstylecity.com, letting users paint with spray paint, marker… | ||
| "Footstreams: Clickstreams for the P | Jeff Holden | 14m |
Pelago positions footstreams as a physical-world clickstream and ships it in World 1.0: a map UI with social overlays that converts lat/long into named places… | ||
| "Beyond Maps, The Hyperlocal Experience | Mark Law | 16m |
MapQuest pivots from maps to a nationwide hyperlocal portal launched for every US/Canada city on day one, ingesting local RSS and partner APIs into modular… | ||
| "Tricky Issues With Local Search" | Danny Sullivan | 16m |
Shows concrete failures in local search: wrong phone numbers for Newport Beach police and a jail listing that kept getting calls, messy Google/Yahoo claim… | ||
| "Maps in Four Dimensions | Brandon Martin-Anderson | 11m |
Shows elevation and time as bona fide mapping dimensions, not metaphor. Recreates Minard’s Napoleon retreat with Google Maps and flags ~95,000 deaths out of… | ||
| "Innovation Through Open Location" | Tyler Bell | 17m |
Yahoo releases GeoPlanet data — tab‑delimited dumps of WOEIDs and labels covering millions of places — and exposes a Placemaker XML API that extracts place… | ||
| ""Junk Mail" and the G | Denice Ross, James Fee | 16m |
Repurposes VASIS postal-address snapshots to measure repopulation after Katrina, publishes block-level Google Maps showing households currently receiving mail… | ||
| "Will the Promise of LBS Ad Models Ever Get Off the Ground?" | Perry Evans | 15m |
Argues LBS revenue myths and gives concrete counterpoints: small businesses split into growth/plateau/lifestyle segments so conversion and time cost matter… | ||
| "ArcGIS and the Web: Better Sharing of Geographic Information" | Rob Shanks | 10m |
ArcGIS Online is a cloud GIS that hosts content from partners and millions of GIS users, providing a US-wide topographic map service that renders contours… | ||
| "Are Geospatial Tools Supposed To Bring Us Closer To Place?" | Andrew Turner | 24m |
Book "Introduction to Neogeography" is being open‑sourced under Creative Commons and aims to connect map technologists with place projects. Specific tools and… | ||
| "Translating Geo-Web Efficiency into | Alex Oliver | 14m |
A studio translates building product catalogs into usable 3D models for architects, builds an online visualization app with the Google Earth API to map… | ||
| "Location-based, x" | Natasha Leger | 15m |
Claims location-aware consumer apps total about 200 million users now and may reach 750 million, while legacy GIS counts ~2 million expert users and “80% of… | ||
| "Flea Market Mapping" | Michal Migurski | 16m |
Buys old city maps at flea markets, scans them, and georectifies them so they align with modern slippy maps; tools are a flatbed scanner, Photoshop, getlon.com… | ||
| "Indigenous Mapping: Emerging Cult | Rebecca Moore | 13m |
Amazonian Surui communities map and upload 2,000 sites using GPS and Google Earth, attach photos, interviews and SketchUp models, and control which cultural… | ||
| "Ubiquitous GeoContext" | Steve Coast | 16m |
Argues for open vector maps and shows what a location‑dense future actually does: devices and cars trade GPS, wiper and temperature data to enable personal… | ||
| "Where Does Journalism Go?" | Dan Gillmor | 16m |
Covers specific projects and failures: maps power investigations (Miami Herald Pulitzer after Hurricane Andrew), electoral data work (Nate Silver/538)… | ||
| "Look! A Map" | Bruce Daniel | 12m |
As maps shift from static pictures to interactive experiences, a working mapping platform called maps.carta.com lens tool demonstrates zoomable type, multiple… | ||
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