<div dir="ltr">Thanks Jody, <div><br></div><div>I agree with all of your points here, though the security aspect disappoints me!</div><div><br></div><div>Keep them coming folks- off list is fine too :-)</div><div><br></div><div>I appreciate that everyone's busy with FOSS4G (lucky people) but if you have any thoughts, please pass them on. I'm keen that this article doesn't just represent my own opinions, but reflects the wider community too.</div><div><br></div><div>All the best</div><div><br></div><div>Jo</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 3:18 AM, Jody Garnett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jody.garnett@gmail.com" target="_blank">jody.garnett@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">There was a good academic foss4g13 talk exploring devices communicating their location back into a visual console - I think we will need to take that idea and run with it.<div><br></div><div>- IoT will not be a thing, instead things will be things (the internet will be assumed)</div><div>- I did not mention location there, because location will already be assumed</div><div>- Security will still be a pain, but we will give up privacy rather than fix it</div><div>- Giving up the privacy associated with location will actually mean giving up real privacy (but we won't notice until a generation has grown up without it)</div><div>- We have a tradition of spatial being special (things closer together are likely correlated) the mix of this assumption with things (internet+location) will result in "GIS" behaviours where the closeness assumption no longer holds</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>--</div><div>Jody Garnett</div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On 9 September 2015 at 11:42, Jo Cook <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jocook@astuntechnology.com" target="_blank">jocook@astuntechnology.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr">Dear All,<div><br></div><div>I am writing a paper predicting the state of Open Geospatial in 2020, for a Foresight study for the Association for Geographic Information (<a href="http://www.agi.org.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.agi.org.uk/</a>). I contributed to their previous foresight study- on the state of Open Geospatial in 2015 (written in 2010). See <a href="http://www.agi.org.uk/news/foresight-report" target="_blank">http://www.agi.org.uk/news/foresight-report</a> for a link to the pdf.</div><div><br></div><div>In this case, "Open" is not simply limited to Open Source, but also Open Data, Open Standards, and unfortunately many other meanings of the term "Open".</div><div><br></div><div>I asked for predictions for the previous study here on the OSGeo Discuss list (though I can't find the thread in the archives) and I'm both keen and curious to crowd-source some opinions/predictions again now. Anything I use will be cited, unless you don't want it to be!</div><div><br></div><div>Grateful thanks in advance</div><span><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>Jo</div><div><div><br></div>-- <br><div><div dir="ltr"><div><b></b><b>Jo Cook</b><br>Astun Technology Ltd, The Coach House, 17 West Street, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 7RL, UK <br>
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