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. 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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