Vodafone’s receiver on space/geoweb
Posted: October 22nd, 2008 | 1 Comment »In the last issue of Vodafone’s receiver, which is about “space”, there is an interesting overview of the geospatial web (aka GeoWeb) by Sean Gorman. The article examine how these technologies allow to understand spatial and social phenomena. Starting by a quick overview of the field and how it shifted from cartographers and geo-scientists to hackers and programmers, Gorman describes the different possibilities enabled by such technologies: from mash-up to mobile application (unfortunately using again the sad restaurant-rating example).
Why do I blog this? useful material to write a chapter about the history of location-based services. The article by Jonathan Raper is also pertinent as it uncovers principles about what “digital geography” can offer.
Thanks for checking out article. Sadly my lame examples mutliply when procrastination wins the day on waiting to long to write it. Id love this recent quote on a similar note:
“Location-based applications are also looking interesting, although he (a VC investor) had a word of caution to developers. No pitch that starts with “say you’re walking by a Starbucks,” is going to work, he joked. “Just eliminate that line,” he said. The example, usually in which someone walks by a Starbucks and automatically receives a coupon for discounted coffee to their phone, has been used for many years by companies as they try to jump start the location-based services market.”
http://apb.directionsmag.com/archives/4944-Advice-to-those-looking-for-venture-capital.html