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Attendee DirectorySchedule: 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),
Chris Conley (ACLU of Northern California),
Francoise Gilbert
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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Bernie Hackett (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 H
Alex Kilpatrick (Tactical Information Systems),
Mary Haskett (Tactical Informations Systems)
Advances in biometric identification will soon allow a person to be tracked without consent, providing a potentially continuous stream of location data that can be made available to marketeers, government, police, friends, enemies, or anyone willing to buy it. This session will examine the state of the art of surveillance technologies, defeat mechanisms, and implications for privacy.
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Ballroom H
Jason Jacobs (RunKeeper)
As location-enabled smartphones proliferate, increasingly large amounts of fitness data can be collected more easily and inexpensively than ever before. By aggregating this data in one place, and building a virtual platform that combines , coaching, game mechanics, and social networking, is it possible to increase the health of the world's population in a meaningful way?
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Ballroom H
Andrew Turner (GeoIQ)
We've reach a pinnacle of open location data and mapping visualization. The cutting edge is now in allowing conversations around location through shared understanding. Collaborative are allowing citizens to share climate models with scientists and mobile developers to work with businesses on social media campaigns. Learn about how collective location intelligence is evolving Where2.0.
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Ballroom H
Alasdair Allan (University of Exeter),
Pete Warden (OpenHeatMap)
Today at Where 2.0 Pete Warden and Alasdair Allan will discuss the discovery that your iPhone, and your 3G iPad, is regularly recording the position of your device into a hidden file. Ever since iOS 4 arrived, your device has been storing a long list of locations and time stamps.
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Ballroom E
Jyri Engestrom (Ditto)
A trip, a photo, a destination - they all have a location (or locations) that can be shared. However sharing a location isn't as simple as the base objects themselves. Location needs to be baked into an experience from the beginning. The creator of Jaiku and Ditto explains his methods in this session.
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Ballroom H
Tod Kurt (ThingM)
The Google Nexus S offers support for Near Field Communication (NFC), an extension to a RFID smart card protocol popularly used for secure access, metro passes, and electronic money. This session will cover what NFC and RFID is and is not, what Android on the Nexus S is currently capable of, and some examples of how to add NFC to your apps.
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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 H
While the check-in battle of GPS occurs outside of the building,
device interactions inside the building are more relevant to human
relationships. We explain the heartbeat of radios and dive into
machine readable code creating almost sci-fi actions of automated and
relevant scripting for the real world.
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Ballroom D
Alasdair Allan (University of Exeter)
Location-aware augmented reality applications, where objects are injected into a real-world view based their location relative to your own position, as well as marker-based applications, where the real-world view is interpreted in real time and objects are placed in the view based on unique real-world markers, have rapidly become one of the killer applications
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Ballroom H
Nathaniel Vaughn Kelso (The Washington Post)
This session will examine the best ways to map and visualize data.
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Ballroom G
Christian O. Petersen (CloudMade)
This session will take you through how to come up with and create the next generation of location and context aware smartphone apps.
Location is not just about checking in or navigating on a map. It’s the key difference between the old desktop applications and a new era of smartphone apps and user experiences created for people on-the-go.
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Ballroom H
Daniel Cousineau (RAPP Collins)
jQuery Mobile is a new cross-device touch UI platform for your web apps from the same people that brought you jQuery and jQuery UI. It provides a lightweight application framework that enables you to build dynamic, native quality web applications quickly. Come learn the basics, tricks, and pitfalls as we walk through a small, sample mobile application.
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