Urban Mapping’s own Ian White moderated a pre-Where2.0 conference roundtable session about the future of the base map. While there will be a ‘real world’ panel at the O’Reilly conference next week in San Jose, Brady Forrest kindly volunteered to transcribe & post the pre-conference virtual roundtable.
With the participation of head of geography for US Census (TIGER), head of product for the UK’s OS, OpenStreetMap founder and CEO of Waze, there were many good points discussed, and more to happen next week–post your comments/questions/concerns to the O’Reilly post and we’ll try to work them in to the debate.
In case anybody is wondering why NVT/TA and others didn’t participate, they weren’t um, asked to. They serve the role of incumbent player a la Base Map 1.0. Also, Google was invited to participate to discuss Map Maker, their open source style map wiki, but they declined to participate.
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