In October of 2009 I wrote that the trinity of geo was going to hit New York City. Translated, this meant that myself, Tom Coates (the man behind the creation of Fire Eagle and now roving Yahoo! Product Manager for User Location) and Aaron Cope (then chief geo wrangler and trouble maker at Flickr and now trouble maker at Stamen Design) were going to be descending on New York City for the Yahoo! Open Hack developer’s conference. I also speculated that is was going to be geotastic. It was.
Now some 5 months later, the video footage that was shot in the Millennium Broadway Hotel, just off of Times Square has finally emerged blinking into the light of day so now would be a suitable time to revisit my talk, Place not Space; There’s More to Geo than just Maps.
It would also be a suitable time to pair the slide deck with added video footage featuring genuine fatigue and jetlag.
Another Piece Of Bloggage By Gary
Self professed "geek with a life", geo-blogger, geo-talker and geo-tweeter, Gary works in London and Berlin as Director of the Places Registry for Nokia; he's a co-founder of WhereCamp EU, the chair of w3gconf and sits on the W3C POI Working Group and the UK Location User Group. A contributor to the Mapstraction mapping API, Gary speaks and presents at a wide range of conferences and events including Where 2.0, State of the Map, AGI GeoCommunity, Geo-Loco, Social-Loco, GeoMob, the BCS GeoSpatial SG and LocBiz. Writing as regularly as possible on location, place, maps and other facets of geography, Gary blogs at www.vicchi.org and tweets as @vicchi.
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