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Alex D Singleton
Research Fellow
Department of Geography and Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis
University College London
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“GIS"
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“Google Maps"
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Google Maps GIS Google Earth
Linear Scale (y)
Searches by keyword relative to all searches
Demonstrates order of magnitude
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• 14k People ESRI User Conference
– Compared RGS – 1-1.5k
– Compared AAG – 9k
• GIS needs to redefine the market – Science!
– Google - Visualisation
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14%
3%
5%
5%
6%
6%
7%
7%
13%
35%
ESRI
Intergraph
GE
Autodesk
Leica
Mapinfo
IBM
SICAD
Logica
Other
http://www.gismonitor.com/news/pr/110702_Daratech.pdf
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• Global Spending $1.8bn
– $544 million was spent by U.S. federal, state and local
government agencies (~30%)
– ESRI has roughly 80 percent of the software market
share in the US federal, state and local government (~
$435m )
http://www.washingtontechnology.com/print/20_8/25991-1.html?topic=state
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TomTom
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In studying and/or promoting web-
technology, the phrase Web 2.0 can
refer to a perceived second
generation of web-based communities
and hosted services — such as social-
networking sites, wikis, and
folksonomies — which aim to facilitate
creativity, collaboration, and sharing
between users.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html
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3rd Party
Application
Builder
Data :
!
•Open Formats
•Geo-RSS
•KML
•XML
•“Tiles”
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http://googlesightseeing.com/2007/05/24/angelina-jolies-geocache-tattoo/
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http://googlesightseeing.com/2007/05/24/angelina-jolies-geocache-tattoo/
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What about...
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100%
50%
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• 26 countries in America, Europe, Asia and Oceania
• Total population of 1 billion people (individual level
data for 300 million people)
• 10.8 million unique surnames
• 6.5 million unique forenames
• Statistics at postcode level
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Surnames
UK Electoral Roll
Forenames
Pablo
Mateos
Garcia
Pérez
...
Juan
Rosa
Marta
...
Sánchez
Rodríguez
...
• Several iterations until self-contained cluster is exhausted
• Cluster assigned an Onomap Type
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Select Multiple Layers
•Tiles
•Remotely Hosted
Fade Control
Close Legend
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Fantasy Architecture
Real-time Render
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Virtual Places & Virtual Globes – Second Life
Embedded GI
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• Global pin board
• Meta data?
• Google type technology – display / sharing
– What about the science?