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Hacking with Google, Virtual Earth and Yahoo's Maps API II

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Andrew Turner (GeoIQ), Rabble Evan Henshaw-Plath (cuboxsa.com)
10:45am Tuesday, 05/19/2009
Location: Regency Ballroom #1

Having leading edge features and capabilities are great, but if you can’t get data into your system, or users can take their data out then it’s a dead end. This workshop will cover popular formats, services, and interfaces that are emergent and upcoming in the Where2.0 space.

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Andrew Turner

GeoIQ

Andrew Turner is the CTO at GeoIQ, the company behind GeoCommons, a geospatial visualization and platform. He co-founded Mapufacture, a personalized geospatial search and aggregation system that was acquired by FortiusOne in August 2008 in order to combine real-time feeds with large GIS datasets. Andrew is focused on collaboration and user-generated content around location and time. He is actively involved in open-data projects such as OpenStreetMap and VoteReport, as well as open-source projects like Mapstraction and GeoPress. He regularly speaks at conferences on the benefits of open-source software and geospatial standards to communities and organizations. Andrew wrote the O’Reilly shortcut “Introduction to Neogeography” and “Trends in Where2.0” business report in Spring 2008. He is also published in MacTech and Make magazine on his home-automation hacking.

Previously, Andrew was an aerospace engineer building airships, spacecraft and real-time immersive simulators. He received his B.S in Aerospace Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Virginia and his Masters from Virginia Tech.

Andrew Turner is the co-author of Beautiful Mapping .

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Rabble Evan Henshaw-Plath

cuboxsa.com

Rabble is the founder of Cubox SA, a rails development shop in Montevideo, Uruguay. He has extensive experience doing ruby on rails development and generally causing a ruckus. He was the architect for Odeo.com and Yahoo! Fire Eagle location broker platform.