[This is part of a series of posts that briefly describe the trends that we’re currently tracking here at O’Reilly]
Google Maps and Google Earth changed our ideas of what a map on a computer could do for us. We now have tremendously detailed data about the real world and software to manipulate it. Some of the data and code are open, some closed. More and more companies want to connect their products and services to the real world with these data and services.
Watchlist: Google Maps, Google Earth, the open source geospatial community
, Where 2.0.