Thursday, January 27, 2011

Geospatial in the cloud

As mentioned previously, earlier in the week myself, Brian Timoney and Chris Helm did a set of presentations and demos on geospatial technology in the cloud, to the Boulder Denver Geospatial Technologists group. We were aiming to give a quick taste of a variety of interesting geo-things currently happening in the cloud, and we did it as six slots of about ten minutes each, and apart from my introductory opening slot these were all demos:
  • Peter: Why the cloud?
  • Brian: Google Fusion Tables
  • Chris: the OpenGeo stack on Amazon (PostGIS, GeoServer, OpenLayers, etc)
  • Peter: Ubisense myWorld and Arc2Earth
  • Chris: GeoCommons
  • Peter: OpenStreetMap
We got a lot of good feedback on the session. Here's the video (for best quality click through to vimeo and watch in HD):

Geo in the cloud from Peter Batty on Vimeo.

Here are links to the demos we used, or related sites:
And finally, here are my slides on slideshare:
Geo in the cloud
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7 comments:

  1. LeslieJanuary 27, 2011 at 8:19 PM

    Thanks for all the links and the slides, oh and the video.

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  2. Joshua McNaryJanuary 28, 2011 at 6:10 AM

    Thanks for posting this Peter. Good stuff, but no mention of SpatialCloud.com? I suppose I am bias. =)

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  3. Peter BattyJanuary 28, 2011 at 7:49 AM

    Hi Josh, sorry about that, obviously we couldn't mention everyone active in the geo cloud area, so we picked what we thought was a good cross section of examples where the 3 of us had direct experience.

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  4. BernieJanuary 28, 2011 at 7:54 AM

    Peter - thanks for taking the extra step of making the video of your presentations and sharing your info with the rest of us English speaking geo-nerds. it is very appreciated.

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  5. BernieJanuary 28, 2011 at 8:10 AM

    Notification of OSM edits: You can use itoworld.com to setup notifications of OSM edits. Here is a link - ITO Worrld.

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  6. Peter BattyJanuary 28, 2011 at 8:19 AM

    Bernie, thanks both for the thanks and for the pointer to the ITO World notification service. And good work on watching the video right to the very end :) !!

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  7. Peter BattyJanuary 28, 2011 at 11:17 AM

    Alfred Sawatsky also tweeted that he uses OWL to track OSM updates in an area (this gives you an RSS feed).

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