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How do crowdsourcing, the Internet of Things and Big Data converge on geospatial technology?

by Matt Ball on October 7, 2011

While this column title may sound a bit like buzzword bingo, perhaps only missing ‘in the cloud’ to declare a winner, all of these technology trends are linked strongly to the power of geospatial technology to synthesize, visualize and analyze global change. We live in a time of great technological, political, and social disruption, amid [...]

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SXSW Tackles “City as Platform”

by Matt Ball on March 16, 2010

There’s a growing (renewed?) interest in the Internet of Things around the benefits for a more instrumented and connected city. IBM organized a session at SXSW in Austin that took place this morning titled, “City as Platform.” The objectives of the session was to discuss the role of information architects, the interface of systems with [...]

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