GITA keynote 2011 v2

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My keynote presentation at the GITA Geospatial Solutions Conference in Dallas, April 2011. The talk is on the theme of simplicity and includes a look back at how things have changed over the lifetime of the GITA conference.

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Peter BattyUbisense

Simplicity

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AM/FM Conference

1993Orlando

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Intergraph hospitality suite

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Gordon Moore, Intel

Moore’s Law

Computers double in power every 18 months

210=1024212=4096

18 years agocomputers were

4000xless powerful

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In 1840s it took 5 months to travel 2000 miles from Missouri to California - 13 miles per day, ~0.5 miles per hour

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Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird

mph2400

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Denver to Dallas

640 miles

50 days 16 minutes

1993 2011

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Gordon Moore, Intel

Moore’s Law

26=64

18 years agocomputers were

4000xless powerful

1993

1984 9 more years

computers were

256,000xless powerful

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Space Shuttle17,000mph

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Giant tortoise0.17mph

Resting 2/3 of time0.06mph

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Denver to Dallas

640 miles

13 months 2 min 15s

1984 2011

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1993

IBM mainframes still dominated business computing

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1993

Cell phones were a bulky and expensive curiosity

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The first web browser, Mosaic, was released 1993

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GIS ran on UNIX workstations

1993

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Martin Newell

The Newell teapot, 1975

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1993

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1993The major GIS vendors were ...

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Location is now

Pervasive and Simplein consumer applications

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Disruptive technology

Functionality /performance

Time

Established technology

Disruptive technology

MainstreamMarketrequirements

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“But these new systems are just

simple web mapping, they’re not GIS”

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Applications

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Cartography

Andy Allan

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Data creation and maintenance

OpenStreetMap31

Geospatial analysis

Stamen Design

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Geospatial analysisGeoIQ / GeoCommons

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Huge growth in Free and Open Source Software

September 12-16

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What about detailed facility mapping?

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Google basemap with facilities

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Attribute data

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Street View gives extra info

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Autocomplete search

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“Enterprise mashups”

OutagesTrucksWMSCIS

Smart Grid

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Mobile

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Wireless broadband becoming pervasive

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Revolution in simple but powerful smartphones and tablets

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New generation workforce grew up with video games

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Pole #374109Wood, 30ftSwitch #1307Circuit #254, ABCInspected 2010/08/15

Augmented reality

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Video conferencing46

2007 Prius 2010 iPad!

$2000 $2.99 + $2.99/mo47

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Data48

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Google Street View

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Microsoft Street Slide

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Deployment

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The

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Cloud

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This is an old Google data center (2005)

Each container holdsservers1,160

This facility holds an estimated

150,000servers

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Google has an estimated 40…holding an estimated

data centers…

1 millionservers

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3 billionsearches per day

35,000searches per second

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2 billion videos per day

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100 millionmonthly users

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one zillion times more computer science

PhDs than your company or mine has

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AmazonGoogle

Your IT department

HUGEeconomies of scale

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Save

BIG!!

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but is it SECURE???

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There is a strong case that

your data

more secureis

in the cloud

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Fast train?

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Usability / simplicity

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Cloud

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changing natureof geospatial data

The

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Usability / simplicity

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More detail in talktomorrow at 2pm

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