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Alexandre Enkerli

Knight Foundation Announces Support for New Open Mapping Tools | TechPresident - 1 views

techpresident.com/...support-new-open-mapping-tools

Mapping OSM

shared by Alexandre Enkerli on 21 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • licensing terms
  • grant
  • licensing restrictions
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  • places where Google cannot or does not often go
  • big, largely Western, multinational corporations
  • worst of times, OSM reveals itself as a volunteer-driven project
    • Alexandre Enkerli
      Alexandre Enkerli on 24 Sep 12
       
      Hurray for citizen-driven innovation?
  • awful performance
  • DevelopmentSeed
  • DevelopmentSeed CEO
  • really rich community of people
  • want to map
  • worldwide basemap
  • making it easier
  • competitor
  • famously sophisticated map layers.
  • complicated relationship
  • supporter of open source
  • funded through Google Summer of Code
  • Map Maker and OSM sometimes compete for market share.
  • undermining Google's geospatial dominance
  • challenge a competitor's core competency
  • weaken the competition
  • grant challenge program focused on data in civic life
  • Open Elections
  • developer-friendly data
  • LocalData
  • research
  • tool for community groups to collect and store data about their neighborhoods
Philippe Huot

RESEARCH | Future of Real-Time Report - Global Pulse - 2 views

www.unglobalpulse.org/...future-real-time-report

united nations big data crowdsourcing mapping real-time

shared by Philippe Huot on 28 Aug 12 - No Cached
  • Philippe Huot on 28 Aug 12
     
    "Prepared for the United Nations Global Pulse team, the Future of Real-Time Report identifies key trends emerging around the capture and transmission of real-time information streams." Le rapport recense les grandes tendances en traitement en temps réel de grandes quantités de données. Plusieurs projets relatifs à la géolocalisation et à la cartographie sociale et humanitaire y sont répertoriés.
Alexandre Enkerli

How Google and Apple's digital mapping is mapping us | Technology | The Guardian - 2 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...google-apple-digital-mapping

mapping

shared by Alexandre Enkerli on 18 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • someone's way of getting you to look at the world his or her way
  • Any square mile of the planet can be described in an infinite number of ways
  • Traditionally, the interests reflected in maps have been those of states and their armies
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  • What happens when we come to see the world, to a significant extent, through the eyes of a handful of big companies based in California?
  • maps based on mined data come to shape our sense of space
  • Google's and Apple's maps might not just observe our lives, but in some sense come to play a role in directing their course.
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