Trends in LBS #wherecamp

Slides from my talk at WhereCamp.de 2016 - Berlin, 4 Nov 2016

Transcript

1. Trends in Location Based Services: Lessons learned in running #geomob Ed Freyfogle, @freyfogle #wherecamp Berlin, 4 Nov 2016
3. $ whoami
4. $ whoami - Co-founder of OpenCage, geocoding API built on open data - Seed investor in geo start-ups - Entrepreneur: co-founder of real estate search engine Nestoria - Organizer of #geomob, London geo-meetup
5. Evening event, 5-6 times per year, since 2008 4-6 speakers 50-75 attendees Doers, NOT marketing people After the talks we head off to pub for #geobeers Next event is 25th Jan, please join us! Learn more: http://geomobldn.org or @geomob #geomob
6. CC BY-SA 2.0 Harry Wood
7. Universities (UCL, CASA, Imperial) Many start-ups in many sectors (some successful) Large offices of many US and EU tech cos: Google, FB, Yahoo, mobile operators, etc Hobbyists, very active OSM community UK Government bodies Cultural / non-profit orgs like British Library Our diversity is our strength
11. What have we learned?
12. 1. Interest in geo is exploding What have we learned?
13. 1. Interest in geo is exploding a. Where am I? What have we learned?
14. 1. Interest in geo is exploding a. Where am I? b. Where was I? What have we learned?
15. trails.io
16. 1. Interest in geo is exploding a. Where am I? b. Where was I? c. Where is my stuff? What have we learned?
18. 1. Interest in geo is exploding a. Where am I? b. Where was I? c. Where is my stuff? d. Move from consuming to creating What have we learned?
22. 1. Interest in geo is exploding a. Where am I? b. Where was I? c. Where is my stuff? d. Move from consuming to creating e. Online to offline What have we learned?
23. CC BY-NC 2.0 Steven Feldman
24. www.thisismikehall.com
25. splash-maps.com
26. 1. Interest in geo is exploding 2. A picture is worth 1000 words What have we learned?
27. 1. Interest in geo is exploding 2. A picture is worth 1000 words a. big demand for data visualisation What have we learned?
28. bikes.oobrien.com
32. 1. Interest in geo is exploding 2. A picture is worth 1000 words a. big demand for data visualisation b. imagery for everyone What have we learned?
33. terrabotics.co
34. Ivan Gayton OpenUAV github.com/ivangayton/OpenUAV
35. 1. Interest in geo is exploding 2. A picture is worth 1000 words 3. Massive opportunity in simplifying What have we learned?
36. 1. Interest in geo is exploding 2. A picture is worth 1000 words 3. Massive opportunity in simplifying a. Big organizations too slow What have we learned?
39. 1. Interest in geo is exploding 2. A picture is worth 1000 words 3. Massive opportunity in simplifying a. Big organizations too slow b. Everything can be simpler. Everything! What have we learned?
40. what3words.com
43. 1. Interest in geo is exploding 2. A picture is worth 1000 words 3. Massive opportunity in simplifying a. Big organizations too slow b. Everything can be simpler. Everything! c. Drowning in data What have we learned?
44. localistico.com
45. avuxi.com
46. avuxi.com
47. 1. Interest in geo is exploding 2. A picture is worth 1000 words 3. Massive opportunity in simplifying a. Big organizations too slow b. Everything can be simpler. Everything! c. Drowning in data d. Good enough is often good enough What have we learned?
48. opencagedata.com
49. opencagedata.com
50. Lots of value in good enough € Features / Performance Traditional focus
51. Lots of value in good enough € Features / Performance Traditional focus Affordable and good enough
52. 1. Interest in geo is exploding 2. A picture is worth 1000 words 3. Massive opportunity in simplifying 4. Open vs. Closed What have we learned?
53. Wrong question, users don’t care Open vs. Closed
55. What is the right question?
56. Is it useful? What is the right question?
57. Is it useful? To me? What is the right question?
58. Is it useful? To me? Right now? What is the right question?
59. Is it useful? To me? Right now? Can I figure out how to make it work? What is the right question?
60. Lots is happening, massive opportunity for geo Usability is the ultimate feature Simpler is better Summary
61. We (myself and Steven Feldman) want to fund you Angel investing (€10-200k) in European LBS start-ups Geo tech / Travel / Classifieds Strong preference for B2B Agree? Building something cool?
62. Let’s talk Ed Freyfogle @freyfogle http://freyfogle.com Based in Tres Torres, Barcelona http://opencagedata.com @OpenCageData http://geomobldn.org @geomob Next #geomob is 25 Jan 2017 © OpenStreetMap contributors, map by MapQuest This talk will be on my blog later today
63. For contributing to free and open (geo) software and data Questions? Danke