However, one of the factors in my decision is that there are also a lot of other really interesting things going on in the geospatial industry right now that I would like to get more involved in, and it’s hard to do everything :) !! I have been working on several things in parallel with whereyougonnabe over the past year or two, including my role as Chief Technical Advisor at Enspiria Solutions, being on the Advisory Board of PublicEarth (both of which are ongoing activities), and working with Netezza on the launch of their spatial capabilities last year. I also did some interesting work with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation last year, to help start what is now the AgCommons project.
Some of the main areas that interest me right now include:
- The disruptive transition from the previous generation of GIS to the “neogeography” systems, which is well and truly under way – I will blog more about this shortly
- The growth in free and open source geospatial software
- The huge potential of crowdsourced data, most notably OpenStreetMap
- In a somewhat different direction, the Smart Grid, which is something I have been working on at Enspiria and which will be bringing major changes to the electricity industry, an industry I have worked in a lot during my career
I’d like to thank my fellow developers Glen Marchesani and Nate Irwin for all the effort they have put into whereyougonnabe – and as I said, even if it goes dormant for a while, it may re-emerge in some form in the future! We are still weighing up whether to keep the current whereyougonnabe system up and running for a while, or take it down, and will notify users what we decide within the next few weeks.
I’ll be talking at GeoWeb next week about what we’ve done with whereyougonnabe, why I continue to see it as an interesting space, and some lessons learned from the whole experience.
That's sad - I hope to see it back in action one day.
ReplyDeleteThanks Sue!
ReplyDeleteGah, that can't have been an easy decision to make, Peter! Best of luck with all the other fascinating irons you have in fires!
ReplyDeletegood luck,
ReplyDeletei hope our paths will xross again
richard abas
Sorry to hear this is getting shelved for a while but it's really interesting to hear about the other things you are getting involved in!
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