Last week I gave a ‘tech talk’ talk on GeoServer at Google, which was a fun experience. It’s for employees of Google, but they make the talk available to all on Google Video: GeoServer and Architectures of Participation for Geospatial Information. If you like it give a nice rating on the page. It touches on The Open Planning Project (my employer), how we leveraged standards to implement KML output in GeoServer to talk to Google Earth, and goes a bit in to architectures of participation for geodata, which I’m in the midst of writing about in this blog.
It’s 54 minutes long, perhaps in the future I’ll link to specific chunks of it. I’m also making the slides available (creative commons attribution license) in powerpoint and open document.
I also said I’d post some links in my blog. Many of them are already on the sidebar, and are also now referenced in the slides. But for completeness sake:
Coase’s Penguin, Yochai Benkler
Public Commons of Geographic Data, Harlan Onsrud, et. al (pdf)
Open Geospatial Consortium
Architecture of Participation by Tim O’Reilly
My take on Architectures of Participation you can also follow the tag.