Radar Report on Where 2.0: The State of the Geospatial Web

The amount of geocontent on the web is expanding. With it has come an increased ability to use this data to sell location-based services that are tied to the web. Andrew Turner and I cover this shift in our new report "Where 2.0: The State of the Geospatial Web".

In the 55 page report we examine:

How Web 2.0 is empowering millions to publish and contribute geocontent to open services
How both community and public geodata are becoming available and freely disseminated
How mobile devices (like the iPhone and soon via Android) are becoming location-aware and leading to new privacy and data access concerns.
Open formats are leading the way for open data
How the net has caused the rise of immersive imagery and the use of
How crowdsourcing is being used to build up mapping data and imagery
How location-based gaming platforms are on the rise, but are still looking for the category-killing game

The report ends with a directory of the most significant companies in the Where 2.0 space. For 15 of the largest companies we include acquisitions, products and key public employees.

If you're a regular reader of my geo/mapping/location posts or an attendee of Where 2.0 then this won't be anything new to you. However, it will collect a lot of the key information, products and companies into one document.

My co-author Andrew Turner has also written a post on the report's release. We've made the first 15 pages available on Scribd.

Where2.0 Excerpt - Upload a Document to Scribd

Matt Merrifield [ 8 January 2009 11:11 AM]

why is the report $995?

Radar Report on Where 2.0: The State of the Geospatial Web

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