Ignite is a fun and high-energy evening of “speed presentations”. At Where 2.0, the theme was geolocalisation
The sixth annual Where 2.0 Conference kicked off this morning in downtown San Jose, Calif., with tutorials (on mapping, geolocalisation…) and the infamous “Ignite” presentations.
As always, Ignite Where 2010 was a fun and high-energy evening of “speed presentations” where attendees where given five minutes on stage to pitch their project using a slides (20 maximum) that rotates automatically after 15 seconds!
Follows are my favourite presentations and the associated videos:
- App Store is For Suckers by Jonathan Stark (Jonathan Stark Consulting)
Submitting (pun intended) to the App Store is for suckers. The cheapest, easiest, fastest way for developers to get in on the mobile gold rush is to build killer web apps. Web apps can now – today – access location data, utilize client-side SQL databases, and even run offline. Web apps run on more than 100 mobile handsets with zero modification. We’ve moved on. Don’t get suckered. - Crowdsourcing the Impossible: Ushahidi-Haiti by Patrick Meier (Ushahidi).
How did hundreds of student volunteers around the world use Ushahidi to save hundreds of lives in Haiti? How did they process and map thousands of urgent life-and-death text messages from Haiti in near real-time? Patrick’s talk will answer these questions in 4 minutes and 58 seconds. - Location Intelligence Down Under- Beards, Sandals and Theodolites? by Maurits van der Vlugt (NGIS)
The Spatial Information Community in Australia is somewhat schizophrenic. It sometimes seems full of ageing, sluggish and conservative blokes. But Australia has also given birth to world-leading innovations such as GML, ArcPad and the game-changing Google Maps. Maurits presents an outsiders view from the inside of the frustrating, quirky and exciting aspects of location intelligence in Australia. - Making Money at a Non-Profit by Sophia Parafina (OpenGeo)
Times are hard and your angel funder just told you that your non-profit open source org needs to feed itself. Great, but it also means change, in terms of process, organization, culture and people’s expectations. The talk is about achieving a balance between profitability and the open source mission. - People Suck at Naming Places by Sylvain Carle (Praized Media)
The world of precise coordinates is easy to interact with using software. The problem is humans don’t use precise coordinates to represent places. They don’t even agree on place names. I will try to give an overview of the current existing services/APIs that you can use to find a precise coordinate with a place name. And then demonstrate why we are not there yet. - Why Your Data Sucks by Paul Ramsey (OpenGeo)
Where is here? That place on a map is relative to a road line, which was digitized on a 5-years-ago satellite image, which was ground referenced to an existing road intersection, which was captured 35 years ago from an aerial photo, which was ground referenced to a control point, which was optically sighted relative to mountain-top control points, which were first occupied 150 years ago. - Zoom In… Zoom Back by Mark Sherman (ZoomAtlas)
Have you ever wondered what happened to your childhood neighbor friend? Or, wanted to reconnect with friends from elementary school? At Ignite Where, the audience will Zoom through the ZoomAtlas map with Mark Sherman, CEO and founder of ZoomAtlas, as he takes them on an adventure through neighborhoods, cities, countryside and more to see how the ZoomAtlas map editor and wiki work…
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