Where 2.0 2009 - details announced

Details of the 5th annual Where 2.0 Conference have been announced.

This annual gathering of the geospatial industry leaders, developers and interested parties is taking place during 19th - 21st May, 2009 at The Fairmont San Jose, San Jose, California, USA.

Check out the O'Reilly conferences site for more details as they are announced.

The State of the Map Conference 2008

The second international State of the Map conference from OpenStreetMap takes place in Limerick, Ireland on 12th-13th July, 2008.



Ed Parsons won't be attending but recommends everyone else does so if you are interested take a look at the schedule.

Lots of useful information on openstreetmap for those that are going this year.

Where 2.0 Conference 2008

The main inspiration for getting this blog up and running was the O'Reilly Where2.0 Conference which took place in Burlingame, CA, from 12th-14th May this year.

I've been meaning to write up some overall thoughts of the event but have been waiting to get the site live first.

So, full review to come along shortly, but in the meantime here are my postings from the conference (on my personal site).

Tutorials: Session 1 - Geo-ify your website - Andrew Turner, Steve Coast
Tutorials: Session 2 - Geo-ify your website - Mikel Maron
Tutorials: Session 3 - Exposing your geo data to search engines - Mano Marks/Lior Ron (Google)

Day 1: Session 1 - Everyblock / Finder / Google / Nokia
Day 1: Session 2 - Loopt / FreeEarth / Autodesk
Day 1: Session 3 - Yahoo! / SAP Labs / Bug Labs / Geotate / Earthscape / Microsoft
Day 1: Session 4 - Earthmine / Pict'Earth / Everyscape / Tele Atlas / Chris Anderson

Day 2: Session 1 - Eye-Fi / Merian Scout / Dash Navigation / Navteq
Day 2: Session 2 - Flickr / Skyhook Wireless / Groundspeak / PlanetEye /
Day 2: Session 3 - Google / Venrock / openlocation.org
Day 2: Session 4 - InSTEDD / Google / Giswebsite / Ushahidi /

All posts can also be viewed on one page.

More news and coverage from the conference, including a selection of speaker presentation files.