A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 364
July 8, 2012
Main Topic: Our conversation on “turning on your spatial light bulb”
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Music
This week’s podsafe music: “Leave the Light On” by Chris Smither
News
Civil GPS funding reduced
TomTom opens MapShare to all users
Amazon acquires UpNext
Physics News
—Validation for Higgs boson?
—Dark matter filaments observed
Windows 8 upgrade for $39.99 (digital copy)
Web Corner
OpoenOceans Global
Main Topic
This week, we feature our conversation inspired by the Vespucci Institute Twitter feed – which featured the question – “When did your spatial light bulb go on?”
Tip of the Week
Europeana geoparser
Events Corner
Geological Society of America: 4-7 November, Charlotte, NC – Abstracts, August 14th
First ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Sensor Web Enablement 2012 (SWE2012): 6-9 Nov, Redondo Beach, CA
17th Annual GIS/CAMA Technologies Conference: 4-7 March, Albuquerque, NM
ASPRS 2013 Annual Conference: 24-28 March, Baltimore, MD
You mentioned how the TomTom crowdsourced data was open source. What does that mean in this context? I assume you are thinking the intelligence definition of open source…but if this data is only shared with TomTom, it’s not open source, is it? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source_intelligence
Good catch! In our rambling conversation I slipped and called the MapShare data “open” where as it clearly proprietary data only available to TomTom users. This is one of he few products that I think the term ‘volunteered’ applies (at least for the info entered on the MapShare site).
So while the MapShare data is crowdsourced it is not open. Apologies for the gaff.
On top of that…I called it open source as opposed to open data.
-Jesse