[OSGeo-Discuss] Predictions about Open Geospatial in 2020

[Jody Garnett]

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.

- IoT will not be a thing, instead things will be things (the internet will
be assumed)
- I did not mention location there, because location will already be assumed
- Security will still be a pain, but we will give up privacy rather than
fix it
- 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)
- 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

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Jody Garnett

On 9 September 2015 at 11:42, Jo Cook <jocook at astuntechnology.com> wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> I am writing a paper predicting the state of Open Geospatial in 2020, for
> a Foresight study for the Association for Geographic Information (
> http://www.agi.org.uk/). I contributed to their previous foresight study-
> on the state of Open Geospatial in 2015 (written in 2010). See
> http://www.agi.org.uk/news/foresight-report for a link to the pdf.
>
> 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".
>
> 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!
>
> Grateful thanks in advance
>
> Jo
>
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