At the Rocket City Geospatial Conference, It Was All About the Data
Readers offered their thoughts.
"... As we've discussed for a couple years, data is/has supplanted
technology as the main driver in our geospatial community. It's data,
not technology, that makes geospatial relevant. ..."
- David Sonnen, ISSI
"It's not just the data but the CURRENT data. Too often I have seen GIS
users say they had data of this and that only to find out later it was
10 year old and most of it had changed. ..."
- James Murphy, ALACAD
Podcast: Implications for Twitter's Geolocation API
Listeners had comments.
"... Adding geolocation to something realtime and easy to publish is
quite transformative. I don't think we really realize just how this
might be used yet. ..."
- Jeremy Heffner
"Great podcast - good point about time proximity. I think the Twitter
location API could be an interesting step towards a better proximity
social networking experience. ..."
- Julian Bourne, Proxpro Inc.
Seen During Geography Awareness Week IV
Readers enjoyed misconceptions about the capabilities of Google Earth.
"Perhaps there should be an on-screen warning in Google Earth. "Object on the screen may not be as live as they appear' ..."
- Briantist
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