- The presentation in PDF format.
- Publishing Landsat on AWS, the use of cloud infrastructure for public data distribution and processing.
- On the size of Google Maps, now larger than most national mapping agencies.
- OpenTripPlanner and OpenStreetMap, how open data and open source leverage each other and are in turn re-consumed by governmnet and civil society.
- Michael H Goldhaber on the attention economy, a prescient take on content and the internet from 1997.
- Google aquires Skybox Imaging.
- Bibiana McHugh on Portland Trimet's triple open strategy: open data, open standards, open source.
- Paul Ramsey on why SDIs fail.
- The General Transit Feed Specification.
- The places developers get data now, instead of governments:
- Three start-ups prominent in the new take on geomatics:
- MapBox
- How MapBox is using automated trajectory matching, another fully automated process of data cleansing.
- User guided feature extraction, with enhancement to the the Id OSM editor
- CartoDB
- Planet Labs
- Planet Labs already has more satellites than most governmments and are launching dozens more every year
- How Planetlabs is rectifying the planet, with automated ground rectification of very poorly registered images at a rate of 1M images per day.
- MapBox
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