What I learned from #wherecamp
Posted on 14. Aug, 2009 by Guido in Uncategorized
I didn’t go to WhereCamp5280, but I got to watch it on ustream. It’s close enough right. (thanks to Dave Bouman)
I watched a couple of sesions, but the one that really stands out for me is the one with James Fee sharing a google map hack for searching for Rest services.
ok… open google map and search for this: “boston mapserver”
It suddenly find map servers that serve out rest… it’s amazing. Now search “washington dc mapserver” and you can find tree planting. Or search “crime mapserver”.
Now, think about this for a little bit. Should we be able to find crime data? Do all these mapservers mean to be open?
This sparks a great debate in my office about how one share information and why? It’s great to have open standards for sharing geo-data, but I wonder, as many others do, does eeryone get that a mapserver by default can be set up to push out everything… and that can be a very dangerous thing.
What do you think?
