Podcast: The Cross Pollination of Professional and Consumer Geospatial Innovations

By Joe Francica and Adena Schutzberg
July 29, 2007

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Joe Francica and Adena Schutzberg explore where innovation is occurring in the geospatial marketplace in both geospatially focused professional tools and in the consumer marketplace. There's interaction between the two markets as well as innovation moving up and down the geospatial user pyramid.

The podcast is 14 minutes long and was recorded on July 27, 2007.

Oracle Will Use Google Maps API in FSM App (All Points Blog)
Google Earth Enterprise - Now in 2D! (All Points Blog)
FDO Project
Yahoo pipes
Microsoft Silverlight
Weather.com's Interactive Map

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FDO and interoperability (#1) by Brian Timoney, The Timoney Group
Date: July 31, 2007 20:04 PM

Adena:

Good call on the importance of FDO as an important new open source resource. However the lack of buzz isn't much of a mystery--a large portion of the sector relies on vendors for their news (not blogs, sorry)--and ESRI and Oracle are quite happy to play that role.

Keeping the kids down on the farm may be smart business, but eventually they start to wonder about those bright lights on the distant horizon. Hence Oracle's integration with GMaps and ESRI's pending ArcServer integration with Virtual Earth--decisions reluctantly driven by client requests rather than an enthusiastic embrace of superior mapping technologies?

Which is another way of saying that there's little reason to expect the pattern of innovation coming from outside the traditional GIS sector is going to change in the near term.

Brian

p.s. While it may suit the incumbents to have their clients largely relying on them for news of innovation, I predict in 2008 the whirlwind will be reaped when Microsoft launches its marketing offensive around a spatially-enabled SQL Server working in tandem with Virtual Earth,their custom reporting apps, etc. To our ears it will be old hat, but to a large portion of their customers, it'll be the first they've heard of this "geo" stuff.

On the upside, after next year we won't have to waste time at conference plenary sessions wondering together when mainstream business will "get" geospatial, because the answer will be clear: when Redmond's marketing machine decides to spread the news.

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