{"id":797,"date":"2010-06-08T14:57:01","date_gmt":"2010-06-08T13:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/?p=797"},"modified":"2010-06-08T14:57:01","modified_gmt":"2010-06-08T13:57:01","slug":"sort-geo-spatial-as-an-organising-principle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/2010\/06\/sort-geo-spatial-as-an-organising-principle\/","title":{"rendered":"SORT &#8211; Geo-spatial as an organising principle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Reid from EDINA (presentation available at <a href=\"http:\/\/prezi.com\/n8ui3umrjxfh\/survive-or-thrive\/\">http:\/\/prezi.com\/n8ui3umrjxfh\/survive-or-thrive\/<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Digimap has just had its 10th birthday &#8211; a practical exemplar of the efficacy of shared services.<\/p>\n<p>Geo-spatial information has had huge and rapid takeup over recent years. What are the drivers behind this?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Grass roots &#8211; hacker driven, web 2.0 type approach &#8211; informal<\/li>\n<li>Top down, governance heavy, standards driven &#8211; formal<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Technology drivers &#8211; increasingly we all have GPS devices (even if we don&#8217;t know it)<\/p>\n<p>What is Geospatial? Can be direct &#8211; aerial photography, mpas, etc. Also indirect &#8211; e.g. location information on Flickr<\/p>\n<p>80% of all organisation information is geographic.<\/p>\n<p>James talking about &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/unlock.edina.ac.uk\/\">Unlock<\/a>&#8216; (<a href=\"http:\/\/unlock.edina.ac.uk\/\">http:\/\/unlock.edina.ac.uk\/<\/a>) &#8211; a range of tools &#8211; e.g.\u00a0Indirect georeferencing can happen through different routes &#8211; places names, parish names, coordinates, postcodes &#8211; Unlock allows these to be transparent by translating from one to another. Buidling an infrastructure for geospatial services (think I got that right)<\/p>\n<p>Inspire &#8211; European Directive to improve the sharing of geospatial information, and make more accessible to the public &#8211; now part of UK law &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu\/\">http:\/\/inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Inspire applies to universities, and covers aspects such as discovery and licensing as well as just making data available. Inspire covers a wide range of data &#8211; especially if you look at Annex III &#8211; likely to impact on Universities (looks from the roadmap at http:\/\/inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu\/index.cfm\/pageid\/44 that this means December 2013 is a date to look at for Annex III)<\/p>\n<p>Things we need to be looking at (from industry &#8216;Foresight&#8217; study):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Augmented reality &#8211; forecast to become mainstream in next 5 years<\/li>\n<li>Cartography and visualisation &#8211; to make sense of the vast amounts of geodata<\/li>\n<li>Global<\/li>\n<li>Satellite imagery<\/li>\n<li>Semantic web<\/li>\n<li>Software: Rise of Open Source, realtime 3D, browser as primary UI<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Also political and environmental drivers &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Many drivers not specific to Geospatial<\/p>\n<p>Inspire is a &#8216;stick&#8217; although also a &#8216;carrot&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Reid from EDINA (presentation available at http:\/\/prezi.com\/n8ui3umrjxfh\/survive-or-thrive\/) Digimap has just had its 10th birthday &#8211; a practical exemplar of the efficacy of shared services. Geo-spatial information has had huge and rapid takeup over recent years. What are the drivers behind this? Grass roots &#8211; hacker driven, web 2.0 type approach &#8211; informal Top down, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[46],"class_list":["post-797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-sort2010"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":798,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions\/798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}