http://highearthorbit.com/all-your-data-providers-are-belong-to-someone-else/ Transmitting ideas, observations, and images from 42,000 km. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:10:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://highearthorbit.com/all-your-data-providers-are-belong-to-someone-else/#comment-114201 BlinkGeo » Thoughts on Authors, Synthesizers, and Consumers in the Geospatial Landscape Wed, 10 Oct 2007 23:23:22 +0000 http://highearthorbit.com/all-your-data-providers-are-belong-to-someone-else/#comment-114201 [...] Taking a look at trends in GIS 2.0 (or ‘Where 2.0,’ it’s all semantics to me) it appears that the public (consumers) can contribute to both authoring and synthesizing of information through collective efforts that are individual (e.g., geotagging photos on Flickr), community-driven (e.g., OpenStreetMap) or commercially subsidized (i.e., crowdsourcing). As a result, the flow of information is multi-directional (or simply put: stuff is flying everywhere). BTW, Andrew Turner has a great post relevant to this topic. [...] [...] Taking a look at trends in GIS 2.0 (or ‘Where 2.0,’ it’s all semantics to me) it appears that the public (consumers) can contribute to both authoring and synthesizing of information through collective efforts that are individual (e.g., geotagging photos on Flickr), community-driven (e.g., OpenStreetMap) or commercially subsidized (i.e., crowdsourcing). As a result, the flow of information is multi-directional (or simply put: stuff is flying everywhere). BTW, Andrew Turner has a great post relevant to this topic. [...]

]]> http://highearthorbit.com/all-your-data-providers-are-belong-to-someone-else/#comment-114185 Henri Bergius Wed, 10 Oct 2007 21:31:12 +0000 http://highearthorbit.com/all-your-data-providers-are-belong-to-someone-else/#comment-114185 Well said. It will be interesting to see what Nokia makes of the acquisition... Well said. It will be interesting to see what Nokia makes of the acquisition…

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