Hangouts with James Fee Volunteered Crowdsourced and Awesome - IRC Log
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This is the IRC log that corresponded with the live show recording. The views expressed are solely those of the individuals in IRC channel and not of WeoGeo. If there are any concerns, feel free to contact WeoGeo.
- 10:01 :: Dalby :: The suspense builds
- 10:02 :: colocarto :: The suspense between Holliday and Cain
- 10:02 :: Dalby :: How about those Giants
- 10:02 :: colocarto :: How about those Tigers
- 10:03 :: colocarto :: rolling up the Yankees
- 10:03 :: colocarto :: I’ll keep quiet :)
- 10:04 :: jfee :: Giants #winning
- 10:07 :: Dalby :: What is the 5 sentence definition of digital earth? Seems like a big bucket.
- 10:08 :: Dalby :: He hit it a bit
- 10:08 :: colocarto :: subsurface
- 10:10 :: colocarto :: Can you toggle between historical imagery in GE?
- 10:12 :: Dalby :: Re: Colorato - yes
- 10:16 :: colocarto :: or the idea of a ‘participatory GIS’
- 10:17 :: highdesertgeo :: How can businesses incorporate VGI workflows into more traditional “enterprise” information systems?
- 10:18 :: tmcw :: highdesertgeo: well, um, the esri approach of just getting everyone to email you their data
- 10:18 :: highdesertgeo :: lol
- 10:18 :: colocarto :: but when the ‘where’ is provided as valuable asset to said recipient, location suddenly becomes highly relevant
- 10:19 :: highdesertgeo :: please email me your .dbf file….all I received was your .shp file @%&)!
- 10:19 :: colocarto :: and that intel is then facilitated… in a GIS, which wasn’t a reality for many
- 10:20 :: tmcw :: summary: silly artists
- 10:20 :: tmcw :: azavea is doing something here, so is opengeo you could say.
- 10:21 :: tmcw :: but the arcgis/gis education lockup will have a few more years of legacy before this stuff hits mainstream
- 10:21 :: highdesertgeo :: GIS = NOT Keep It SImple Stupid
- 10:22 :: colocarto :: to some degree, although in my opinion when you’re distrubuting information, make it easy to interpret, dummy-proof interface, etc
- 10:23 :: colocarto :: but yes GIS isnt about pressing buttons
- 10:23 :: sophiap :: WeoGeo publishing OSM makes VGI more palatable for GIS users. I think that’s one path
- 10:24 :: tmcw :: ACTION gets out phrenology kit
- 10:29 :: sophiap :: I think that moving WorldWind to java is what killed it
- 10:29 :: tmcw :: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Bob
- 10:29 :: tmcw :: http://toastytech.com/guis/bobhome1p.png
- 10:29 :: highdesertgeo :: OHH SNAPP that might be worse than clippy
- 10:32 :: highdesertgeo :: because you all know all I want to do is track all of my employees ;)
- 10:32 :: jfee :: highdesertgeo: UPS and FedEx do…
- 10:34 :: alexF_ :: What does he see is the future as far as automated collection of real world data, in real time by technologies such as Lidar?
- 10:35 :: colocarto :: someone took UPS/FDX data and mapped it, drastic differences between routing, just shows how each company has developed their processes
- 10:35 :: tmcw :: alexF_: anything involving satellites is basically at the behest of the government and/or kajillions of dollars
- 10:35 :: colocarto :: Fred Smith
- 10:35 :: tmcw :: alexF_: planes, balloons, phones
- 10:35 :: alexF_ :: tmcw_: I’m thinking more in line of drones, fixed installations over trafffic…
- 10:35 :: sophiap :: tmcw what about google’s self driving cars, they use lidar
- 10:36 :: colocarto :: uav
- 10:36 :: tmcw :: s/government/faa
- 10:36 :: colocarto :: FAA’s allowance of uav
- 10:36 :: alexF_ :: tmcw_: Google cars
- 10:36 :: highdesertgeo :: “I am on a boat uav
- 10:37 :: colocarto :: MIT lab has realtime liDAR for emergemcy management in buildings
- 10:37 :: colocarto :: mapping interiors in realtime, brilliant
- 10:37 :: colocarto :: and I think they are using the Kinetic volumnetric sensor
- 10:38 :: alexF_ :: thanks y’all
- 10:38 :: colocarto :: Dr. Goodchild thank you - I have read many of your textbooks
- 10:41 :: madeline :: thanks everyone for watching and commenting!
- 10:43 :: jfee :: Giants will beat the Cards tonight…
