A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 364

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

2 Replies to “A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 364”

John

July 11, 2012 at 3:27 pm

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

Jesse

July 11, 2012 at 11:25 pm

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

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