More info: [ http://GDI-SN.blogspot.com ]
See also latest weblog posting:
MAPS4DEbugs – Können amtliche Daten irren?
[ http://gdi-sn.blogspot.de/2012/03/maps4debugs-konnen-amtliche-daten-irren.html ]

Dresden / 11:40 [FH].

btw, a good reason if you are joining the GI2012-OpenDataPolicies forum in May with a keynote on data *journalism* and open govdata !??
fh / 14:55

Jeff

I cover some of the communications issues toward the bottom of this page:

http://www.surviveclimatechange.com/global-warming-debate.html

Thanks for taking the time to write the response.

I agree that the community aspect is key. I am not sure that more semantics understanding outside of those involved in SDI technologies or professional bodies is the entrepreneurial aspect I was suggesting.

No one knew what a iCloud was, a smartphone or a iPad was 5 years ago. Yet, those devices became the transformative elements to bring about quite a bit of the SDI discussion we have today – not to mention the connectedness you mention as being important.

In 5 years from now we will likely see a variation of smart sensors acting through wireless, data automatically processed and results dropped into so called iCloud like drawers or storage bins like libraries.

My guess is that entrepeneurial spirit will bring about the experience (and knowledge) much quicker than any other approach.

The question is sort of like, “why think about building SDI, rather, why not building the devices, tools and technologies that enable people to do stuff – from which SDIs will arise naturally?”

I understand why you say there is a requirement to progress SDI and also the need to do so within the current (and possibly longer-term) state of the world economy. However, I would argue that the permanent need is for connectedness with SDIs. Whether this is through better communication to stakeholders, policy and decision makers, technologists or being able to share quality controlled (fit for purpose) spatial data across communities.

The community aspect is imperative because there is a massive overlap across communities where organizations and entire sectors are trying to share information, but they don’t share the same vocabularies or glossaries. So maybe one area of technology that needs to be focused on is the semantic web and being able to classify and translate terms between communities.

One area where public-private partnerships may be engaged and expanded is around the open government movement; including efforts on open data and open standards [SDI and SWE are already very active areas in this OGC]. Later this year (April) there is a session during Geospatial World Forum in Amsterdam that will specifically address PPP: http://www.unsdi.nl/downloads/sdi-exchange-forum-gwf-2012.pdf

The same forum will also have a session on real-time geoinformatics (including sensors and other areas):
http://www.geospatialworldforum.org/2012/realtime.htm

In terms of User Generated Content, there are again activities around crowdsourcing in many different communities ranging from emergency & disaster management and environmental reporting to meteorology. For example, next week in Nottingham there is a project development workshop on crowdsourcing in national mapping: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/grace/events/eventsarticles/crowd-sourcing-in-national-mapping.aspx

It may be a case of pushing near real-time observations from multiple, heterogeneous sources through new, faster, smarter, better devices. But it’s still back to the fact that SDIs are driven by people and people need motivated. It would be good to delve deeper into this subject and assess the motivations on the part of both the public and the private sector and go from there. Unless of course some organizations already have that model, and I think they do.

Young people certainly know and understand technology, they also network in a way that many of us can only imagine. BUT it’s going to take a blend of experience and youth to put together business cases on both sides. That’s what it will take to inject more spatial concepts and data into existing and new projects. Technology just supports this approach.

Actually, the acreage covered could be in the millions as producers move toward opportunities.
The driver for an OpenFarmMap would be a requirement to grow 100% more food by 2040, water management factors linked to changing climate, a rise in wireless field technologies and greater collaboration through standardized sensor interfaces.
The move from one farm to many farms is based on the notion of regional management principles, sustainability in the field acting as SDI.
It seems to me that producers will move into this space on their own as they follow opportunities.

I think you mean OpenSeaMap, not OpenMarineMap? You may also want to look at TeamSurv (www.teamsurv.eu), which is concerned with marine bathymetry.

In my state, the farm lobby got legislation passed a while back exempting the data our state Dept of Agriculture collects from the public record laws, and even makes it illegal for Dept of Ag to share it with anyone else. USDA Farm Service Agency also collects farm data on the parcel level, but they have similar restrictions on sharing it.

The second phase means you have stand ouside in the elements waiting for a train that may or not come because of the stupidity of both drivers and people. If the train does come 98% of the time you will be crowded in like a can of sardines for a trip that will take 2 or 3 times as long as a car ride.

This whole process can take 2 -3 times longer than driving your vehicle while siiting and enjoying your coffee, listening to the radio with less stress by the time you get to work only to repeat the process at the end of your 8 hour workday.

So how does transportation address these concerns? They build more billions dollar extensions to the existing system without addressing the problems with the system they already have.

Isn’t something wrong with this thinking?