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Where 2.0 ScheduleSchedule: Development - Location sessions
Location technologies provide data-rich information that can build a priceless user experience and drive a billion-dollar business. Find out who’s developing the tools that make collecting, storing, retrieving, and analyzing huge amounts of data possible. Learn how they do it—and get a sense of what leading developers are thinking about the future.
Raffi Krikorian (Twitter)
The notion of "place" is a critical piece of context in a lot of digital interactions. How can you build a system to handle that?
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Nicole Ozer (ACLU of Northern California)
Location information is valuable — and so is your users’ trust. Get the inside track from VCs, privacy officers, and lawyers at the ACLU about how to avoid privacy pitfalls and make early decisions that are good for users and the bottom line.
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Adam DuVander (ProgrammableWeb)
It's easier than ever to get a map on your website with one of the many APIs provided by Google, Microsoft, MapQuest and many others. Adam DuVander, author of Map Scripting 101, will show you how to do that and more in this workshop. Using Mapstraction, an open source wrapper library, you can write code once for a dozen different map providers.
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Mathias Stearn (10Gen)
This workshop will include hands-on experience working with location data in MongoDB. Data sources will include at least a Zip code listing from the US Census and geo-coded transit stops. No MongoDB experience required, but you should have it downloaded to your laptop if you want to follow along.
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Kathryn Hurley (Google),
Mano Marks (Google, Inc. )
With Google Fusion Tables, a few clicks can turn a large tabular data file into a customized, data driven map or other visualization. With a simple user interface for querying their data, and styling it, users can create highly customized maps. And they can share their data with others while preserving their attribution. So come, learn to build your own data driven map, no programming required.
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Ballroom EFGH
Seth Priebatsch (SCVNGR)
The last decade was the decade of social. The years in which the framework we use to foster digital connections was built. The next decade is the decade of games. And it'll be even bigger. Instead of trading in social connections, the game layer traffics directly in human motivation. It opens up a conduit right to behavioral influence. Explore the nascent construction of this game layer with us.
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Ballroom G
Jennie Lees (Google)
A team of four strangers, an idea, and 5 weeks. Learn how we applied lean startup techniques to prototype and playtest a mobile, social, location-based game and the lessons learned in the process. How can you test out game concepts without writing a line of code? How can you test social in real life? And how does the sock puppet fit into all this?
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Ballroom G
Max Ogden (Code for America)
The civic web is a class of software that focuses on real world events and places specific to a city or neighborhood. GeoCouch, or geo flavored CouchDB, is a web oriented database that lets you host and serve powerful javascript apps and lets you easily crunch geographic data with mega GeoCouch geo muscle. Learn how GeoCouch can be your one stop shop for powering and hosting rich client side maps
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Ballroom H
Di-Ann Eisnor (Platial)
Urban objects like bridges tweet, massively scaled human sensors provide road info, cities offer real-time transit data + citizens power alerts which can be integrated cheaply and @scale. This talk explores questions associated w/developing a real-time transportation dashboard for cities, shares the prototype visualization/sonification in attempt to answer "How do we navigate a data-driven city?"
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Ballroom H
Jeff Raimo (Navteq),
Jessica Borak (NAVTEQ)
LIDAR is increasingly be used to collect street level features with amazing detail and accuracy. This session will examine the use of LIDAR, it's benefits, and the possibilities that exist with this exciting technology especially when paired with other technologies like high resolution cameras, panoramic cameras, and high precision location technologies.
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Ballroom G
Tom MacWright (Development Seed)
TileLive, a dynamic tile rendering toolset that runs in Amazon's cloud, provides fast, non-Flash interactive maps. It's an open source solution for something that until recently had only been achieved by Google and a few competitors. This presentation will demo TileLive and analyze its map rendering techniques, along with Google's and others, and show it in action in several use cases.
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Ballroom H
Chris Hutchins (SimpleGeo)
Between identifying relevant and accurate data sources, harmonizing data from multiple, disparate sources and finding new ways to store, index and manipulate that data, we all know that dealing with location in your applications can be messy. This session will give some direction to those navigating the space.
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