I’m really pleased to see the Ordnance survey presenting at this years 
Where 2.0 Conference this May in San Jose, California. Its important because it demonstrates that both “old” geography and neogeograhpy can learn from each other. This was a point well made by Jack Dangermond at last years event, and hopefully Ian and Mikel’s presentation will demonstrate the real benefit of this mash-up of approaches
If you want a quick introduction into the new ways of creating and using Geographic Information, that has got such a lot of us excited, you could not go wrong by handing over $7.99 to the guys at O’Reilly.com for a copy of “An Introduction to Neogeography” by Andrew Turner the guy behind the highearthorbit blog.
As with the other O’Reilly Short Cuts this is a short (54 page) pdf primer to the subject which gives a great overview of a new emerging part of the technology landscape.
Read this and you should understand why the established GI Industry needs to be looking over its shoulder.
Written and submitted from home, using my home 802.11 network.
O’Reilly have announced the dates of the 2007 Where 2.0 again in San Jose, but now May 29-30 , no longer clashing with the ESRI UC – The online Call for Participation in itself is interesting reading as a good indicator of the range of topics the “undergound” GI Industry now covers.
Can’t help but think business models are going to be a big talking point – and perhaps some industry consolidation ?
Virtual Earth for the Xbox 360 anyone ?