"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
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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