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
Adam
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