Geoenabling the Masses: Practical Lessons from the Field Bringing

Geography to the Burakumin

AAG 2010, Washington DC

Convergence in the GeoWeb: Volunteered geographic information, spatial data infrastructures, and public participation GIS II

Sean P. Gorman PhD.FortiusOne

Learning from the Unwashed MassesLearning from the Unwashed Masses

GIS Caste System

Spatial Data InfrastructuresFor GIS Professionals

Public Participation GISProfessionals + Burakumin

Volunteered Geographic InformationJust the Burakumin

GIS Caste System

Data Discovery

Collaboration

Data Creation

SDI’s – Data discovery toolsSDI’s – Data discovery tools

Mostly Metadata Discovery ToolsMostly Metadata Discovery Tools

Taking You to Data Download SitesTaking You to Data Download Sites

Allow the Community to ParticipateAllow the Community to Participate

Where does VGI fit into all of this?

Caste systems don’t work well for disasters?

Courtesy of John Crowley STAR-TIDES

Courtesy of John Crowley STAR-TIDES

FortiusOne Poprietary InformationCourtesy of John Crowley STAR-TIDES

Courtesy of John Crowley STAR-TIDES

When Unofficial Source Becomes the De Facto StandardWhen Unofficial Source Becomes the De Facto Standard

FortiusOne Proprietary Information

GIS = 1,000,000 users in 300,000 organizations

VGI = 10,000,000 Google My Maps created 600,000,000 Google Earth downloads 500,000,000 indexed KML/KMZ files 250,000 OpenStreetMap registered users 1,000,000 FourSquare registered users 1,300,000 GeoCommons data downloads

Is the question “what role does VGI play in GIS” or “what role does GIS play in VGI”?

Does the user care and are we making artificial distinctions?

The case of GeoCommons

Government CitizensNGO’s

How is data collected?

FortiusOne Proprietary Information

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Support a variety of formatsSupport a variety of formats

KML

Shapefile

CSV (Excel)

GeoRSS

Documents

Database

Georeferencing dataGeoreferencing data

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Universal, Federated Search, and Retrieval

Universal, Federated Search, and Retrieval

How is data verified?

Metadata collectionMetadata collection

Metadata based archivingMetadata based archiving

Dynamic Metadata IntegrationDynamic Metadata Integration

How is participation incentivized?

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Cartographic VisualizationCartographic Visualization

Thematic VisualizationThematic Visualization

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Thematic VisualizationThematic Visualization

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Geospatial AnalysisGeospatial Analysis

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Dynamic Data FeedsDynamic Data Feeds

Temporal Visualization/AnalysisTemporal Visualization/Analysis

How do we provide training?

Interactive video based tutorials

User manuals

Contextual help

How many people participate?

2008 2009 2010Total Registered Users

3,084 10,433 12,563

Total Datasets 7,256 15,922 25,651

Total Dataset Downloads

258,102 1,024,707 1,286,333

36.4 % downloaded as CSV60.2 % downloaded as KML 3.4 % downloaded as Shapefile

(based on the most recent 262,758 downloads/ since Sept 21, 2009)

Data Demographics

Sean Gorman, CEO and Founder sean.gorman@fortiusone.com

703.647.2151

Thank You!