Overview presentation on the disruptive changes going on in the geospatial industry, and how the boundaries between "GIS" and "neogeography" are going away.

1. NeoGeoSchmeo
Peter Batty
WhereCamp5280

2. Overview
• Becoming mainstream
• Disruptive technologies
• NeoGeoSchmeo

3. GIS was a specialized backroom
technology for many years

4. Geo moving to
the mainstream
1996 MapQuest
2005 Google Earth
(Keyhole)
2005 Google Maps

5. Disruptive technology
Functionality / logy
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Market
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6. Now much easier to
include location data
Free or cheap Location
Geocoding
map data tracking

7. The new pretenders
Google
Microsoft
Open Source

8. Fun and cool
Performance
Ease of use
API
Continued innovation

9. Google map tiles
Zoom level Tiles Estimated Land tiles Estimated size (TB) Cumulative size (TB)
0 1 0.25 0.00000000232830644 0
1 4 1 0.00000000931322575 0
2 16 4 0.00000003725290298 0
3 64 16 0.00000014901161194 0
4 256 64 0.00000059604644775 0
5 1,024 256 0.00000238418579102 0
6 4,096 1,024 0.00000953674316406 0
7 16,384 4,096 0.00003814697265625 0
8 65,536 16,384 0.000152587890625 0
9 262,144 65,536 0.0006103515625 0
10 1,048,576 262,144 0.00244140625 0
11 4,194,304 1,048,576 0.009765625 0
12 16,777,216 4,194,304 0.0390625 0
13 67,108,864 16,777,216 0.15625 0
14 268,435,456 67,108,864 0.625 1
15 1,073,741,824 268,435,456 2.5 3
16 4,294,967,296 1,073,741,824 10 13
17 17,179,869,184 4,294,967,296 40 53
18 68,719,476,736 17,179,869,184 160 213
19 274,877,906,944 68,719,476,736 640 853
20 1,099,511,627,776 274,877,906,944 2,560 3,413
Calculations by Charlie Savage

10. Google map tiles
Zoom level Tiles Estimated Land tiles Estimated size (TB) Cumulative size (TB)
0 1 0.25 0.00000000232830644 0
1 4 1 0.00000000931322575 0
2 16 4 0.00000003725290298 0
3 64 16 0.00000014901161194 0
4 256 64 0.00000059604644775 0
5 1,024 256 0.00000238418579102 0
6 4,096 1,024 0.00000953674316406 0
7 16,384 4,096 0.00003814697265625 0
8 65,536 16,384 0.000152587890625 0
9 262,144 65,536 0.0006103515625 0
10 1,048,576 262,144 0.00244140625 0
11 4,194,304 1,048,576 0.009765625 0
12 16,777,216 4,194,304 0.0390625 0
13 67,108,864 16,777,216 0.15625 0
14 268,435,456 67,108,864 0.625 1
15 1,073,741,824 268,435,456 2.5 3
16 4,294,967,296 1,073,741,824 10 13
17 17,179,869,184 4,294,967,296 40 53
18 68,719,476,736 17,179,869,184 160 213
19 274,877,906,944 68,719,476,736 640 853
20 1,099,511,627,776 274,877,906,944 2,560 3,413
Calculations by Charlie Savage

11. 3D buildings
Birds eye view
Photosynth
SQL Server

13. Strong in database
Strong in web mapping
Weaker on desktop
Data improving fast

14. Data sharing
KML
GML
geoRSS
WMS Shape
geoJSON WFS
Lightweight Heavyweight
Mashups OGC
Google Search Portals

15. “But this neogeography stuff isn’t what we
do, it’s just simple web mapping ...”

16. Cartography
Andy Allan, Cloudmade

17. Data creation and maintenance
Upcoming Mapzen editor
Cloudmade

18. Geospatial analysis
FortiusOne / GeoCommons

19. neogeography
=
GIS

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peter.batty@spatialnetworking.com
geothought.blogspot.com