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data-hsystem="true"></head><body><style>p{margin: 0;padding: 0;}</style><p>Hi
All -</p><p><br></p><p> as previously mentioned, I had the opportunity to
present the Live and mapping at a poster session here:</p><p><br></p><p>
http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/12/13/big-turnout-for-launch-of-big-data-center/</p><p><br></p><p>The
writeup is largely accurate.. however I can fill in some personal observations..
The woman Katy in the picture with Tim OReilly was directly across the aisle
from me.. She is going to be program chair for SciPy again this year, in Austin
2014. Katy said that "geo data is going to be one of the two themes for the
conference - do you know anybody ... " !! So that was humorous.. "a lot of
people are aking about geo data" says she.. I did point out that OSGeo has a
speakers page here</p><p><br></p><p>
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Advocate</p><p><br></p><p>Another humorous bit
is that I called the office of Tim OReilly before the show, and left a message
that OSGeo was going to be there.. Tim did listen I think, because in his
allotted four minutes on stage, he told a story about maps.. the punchline to
his story was, that he thinks maps will "disappear" into consumer products that
do the searching and such for you.. I think that misses the point, in that
geodata will be embedded all the way through, whether you see a map or not..
(pun intended) Tim is a complex person however, and many of the other things
he said were indeed thought provoking and showed unique insight..Maybe Tim was
thinking about his own Where 2.0 Conference which "disappeared" when he said
that !! who knows.. <br></p><p><br></p><p> Lastly, the sort of round'ish
fellow in the day-glow green t-shirt is Dav Clark, with whom I have had a few
discussions. I think at the practitioner level, the grad students and post-docs
do get the geo data story quite well, and have a healthy respect for the
software stack that implements it. I will confess that the depth and detail of
the particular Berkeley posters emphasizing maps, made me realize once again
that the map is only the beginning.</p><p><br></p><p> Speaking of which - I
did have a chance to wander the American Geophysical Union (AGU) hall for two
hours on the last day of the show. I saw the posters hall.. at least three
thousand full scientific posters.. not kidding.. Two talks on field surveys of
agriculture in Russia, but sadly the exhibition hall was already closed. Every
single talk, poster, product and research area involved maps, as you can
imagine. The same comments apply here - the map is just the start..
</p><p><br></p><p> best regards from Berkeley,
California</p><p><br></p><p>--</p><p>Brian M Hamlin</p><p>OSGeo California
Chapter</p><p>blog.light42.com</p><p><br></p></body></html>