Comments on: Geo-tagging for the masses http://www.edparsons.com/2009/01/geo-tagging-for-the-masses/ The blog of Ed Parsons, Geographer. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:11:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: iPhoto, Geotagging, GPS and the Mac: A Post-Macworld Roundup | Maps & Atlas http://www.edparsons.com/2009/01/geo-tagging-for-the-masses/#comment-1646 iPhoto, Geotagging, GPS and the Mac: A Post-Macworld Roundup | Maps & Atlas Thu, 29 Jan 2009 06:16:03 +0000 http://www.edparsons.com/?p=670#comment-1646 [...] coverage of iPhoto ’09: Macworld, Richard’s Tech Reviews, Ed Parsons, [...] [...] coverage of iPhoto ’09: Macworld, Richard’s Tech Reviews, Ed Parsons, [...]

]]> By: Stuart Mitchell http://www.edparsons.com/2009/01/geo-tagging-for-the-masses/#comment-1645 Stuart Mitchell Tue, 13 Jan 2009 11:10:51 +0000 http://www.edparsons.com/?p=670#comment-1645 This is most definitely happening. In a way, it's in parallel with other, similar technologies. For example, on my phone, I've an app which allows me to check the current (and inevitable) lateness of trains. It uses the XML feed from National Rail, but I don't need to know that. It just works. The same is true for other technologies. Spatial is different, in that we've only recently been able to track self-location cheaply via GPS, as it becomes standard in phones/cameras/PDAs. At the opposite end, of course, is the community that needs to know the location: Geocaching and such like. It's good to know not everyone is removing their anorak as yet. This is most definitely happening. In a way, it’s in parallel with other, similar technologies. For example, on my phone, I’ve an app which allows me to check the current (and inevitable) lateness of trains. It uses the XML feed from National Rail, but I don’t need to know that. It just works. The same is true for other technologies. Spatial is different, in that we’ve only recently been able to track self-location cheaply via GPS, as it becomes standard in phones/cameras/PDAs.

At the opposite end, of course, is the community that needs to know the location: Geocaching and such like. It’s good to know not everyone is removing their anorak as yet.

]]> By: Mapperz http://www.edparsons.com/2009/01/geo-tagging-for-the-masses/#comment-1644 Mapperz Sat, 10 Jan 2009 13:31:25 +0000 http://www.edparsons.com/?p=670#comment-1644 GIS to go invisible? To people outside the GI industry it's just become visible in indirect ways like online mapping, local searches etc. Think there maybe demand for Online GIS - like databases in these 'clouds' (Amazon S3, CloudMade etc) Maybe a GGIS in Google Apps... so the term 'Cloud GIS' might form. The more clouds the more likely of GIS thunder. An excellent example is Cloud Made http://www.cloudmade.com/ (add postgis spatial capabilities to this and there is a Cloud GIS) Spatial Blogs Also Blogger has introduced Geotagging of posts and now supports GeoRSS http://mapperz.blogspot.com/2008/12/blogger-gets-geotagging-georss-support.html Mapperz GIS to go invisible? To people outside the GI industry it’s just become visible in indirect ways like online mapping, local searches etc.

Think there maybe demand for Online GIS – like databases in these ‘clouds’ (Amazon S3, CloudMade etc)
Maybe a GGIS in Google Apps… so the term ‘Cloud GIS’ might form.
The more clouds the more likely of GIS thunder.

An excellent example is Cloud Made
http://www.cloudmade.com/
(add postgis spatial capabilities to this and there is a Cloud GIS)

Spatial Blogs
Also Blogger has introduced Geotagging of posts and now supports GeoRSS
http://mapperz.blogspot.com/2008/12/blogger-gets-geotagging-georss-support.html

Mapperz

]]> By: Sean Gillies http://www.edparsons.com/2009/01/geo-tagging-for-the-masses/#comment-1643 Sean Gillies Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:28:18 +0000 http://www.edparsons.com/?p=670#comment-1643 See also http://ambergis.wordpress.com/2008/08/15/disappearance-of-gis/ See also http://ambergis.wordpress.com/2008/08/15/disappearance-of-gis/

]]> By: Schuyler Erle http://www.edparsons.com/2009/01/geo-tagging-for-the-masses/#comment-1642 Schuyler Erle Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:45:59 +0000 http://www.edparsons.com/?p=670#comment-1642 I like to say that "software encapsulates expertise"... ... but what happens when it's *your* expertise that's being encapsulated? ;-) I like to say that “software encapsulates expertise”…

… but what happens when it’s *your* expertise that’s being encapsulated? ;-)

]]> By: Ed http://www.edparsons.com/2009/01/geo-tagging-for-the-masses/#comment-1641 Ed Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:49:12 +0000 http://www.edparsons.com/?p=670#comment-1641 Yes, it not a new concept I guess the problem is many in the GIS industry don't want it to have a lower profile :-) Happy New Year ed Yes, it not a new concept I guess the problem is many in the GIS industry don’t want it to have a lower profile :-)

Happy New Year

ed

]]> By: tim warr http://www.edparsons.com/2009/01/geo-tagging-for-the-masses/#comment-1640 tim warr Thu, 08 Jan 2009 15:31:46 +0000 http://www.edparsons.com/?p=670#comment-1640 I like the idea of GIS becoming 'invisible', but have the GIS community not been saying the same thing for the last 12 years or so? Meanwhile 'visible' GIS has still been hanging in there. I remember going to a presentation at AGI in 1996 (I think), where the argument was essentially "we will not be saying the term GIS next year, as it will just be another part of mainstream IT". But we were still talking GIS the next year... Again this debate happened when we started using RDMS for GIS. GIS was just going to become another part of the database, rather than something special and 'visible in its own right. And again we were still talking GIS the next year... I like the idea of GIS becoming ‘invisible’, but have the GIS community not been saying the same thing for the last 12 years or so? Meanwhile ‘visible’ GIS has still been hanging in there.

I remember going to a presentation at AGI in 1996 (I think), where the argument was essentially “we will not be saying the term GIS next year, as it will just be another part of mainstream IT”. But we were still talking GIS the next year…

Again this debate happened when we started using RDMS for GIS. GIS was just going to become another part of the database, rather than something special and ‘visible in its own right. And again we were still talking GIS the next year…

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