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"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943

“Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.”Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)

Web 2.0 is here. But is it FOR REAL?From web1.0 to WEB2.0LIFE 2.0Location Based ServicesWhat’s NEXT?

Registered usersRegistered users

175 M 856 M

Revenues 2008Revenues 2008

350 M$ 1B$

The World most lucrative

social network?

WEB 2.0WEB 2.0

Qzone (Blog)

Movie

Music

Email

Info (Finance, news …)

WAP Browser

Game

Chat Room

Life Life 2.02.0

Life 2.0Life 2.0

Location Based ServicesLocation Based Services

WIRELESS "mobile content" services that provide location-specific information to MOBILE users

Location: what is at, where am I, how do I get to?Temporality: what has changed since?Proximity: what assets are located within x km of…?Query: where is something found…?Modeling: what if….?

What WEB 2.0 Changed What WEB 2.0 Changed ……Creation and Distribution of InformationShared Geographic Data SourcesCollaborative IntelligenceNiche MarketsStandards & InteroperabilityContinuous Improvement

Flickr & OpenStreetMap

A Selection of A Selection of Location Based Location Based

ServicesServices

DialPlus changes the DialPlus changes the definition of a phone definition of a phone

callcall

Rough Guides: Your Rough Guides: Your essential travel essential travel

companioncompanion

Information in English on over 200 cities in 33 European countries

Maps for every single point of interest (POI) - over 15,000 across Europe

Automated location finding

It works with GPS (outdoors) and Wi-Fi (indoors)

Kinjo: Location-based Kinjo: Location-based voice servicesvoice services

Mapping real-time weather Mapping real-time weather using Google Chrome and using Google Chrome and

TwitterTwitter

3.3BillionMobile phones forhalf the planet

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Location based services proliferation Increased availability of web services (push/pull) and visualization technologies

New technology: cameras with geotag capacityVideo display rather than static imageryGreater empowerment of users to add & integrate location information

Future trends in web mappingFuture trends in web mapping

Source: www.edparsons.com

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