Tom Carden wrote:
I think it's clear from how quiet this list is that the geowanking
community is ever more professional and mainstream. Are we "done"?
(And if not, what's happening at the edges and why isn't it discussed
here?)
I agree that the community has become more professional/mainstream.
That's easy to evaluate by looking at the current projects/companies of
many of the members of the list - especially the ones that have been
around for awhile. We're all eager to see our ideas realized, and part
of that realization is measured in success of number of users, size of
projects, notoriety, impact, change - which means mainstream.
However, there are still discussions that are considering what the
future is: temporal geospatial visualization, real-world modeling,
augmented reality, authenticating user-generated geospatial content.
What's exciting is that these formerly esoteric ideas are reaching, most
likely via grassroots, into very mainstream locations (e.g.
WhiteHouse.gov, Recovery.gov, ESRI, UN, etc.)
It will become more difficult to remain completely esoteric. People used
to have computer building clubs - but that doesn't mean we can't still
push the edges. I suggest we all have a good read-over the HeadMap
manifesto and highlight how much is still to be done :)
Andrew
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