• The presentation in PDF format.
• Publishing Landsat on AWS, the use of cloud infrastructure for public data distribution and processing.
• On the size of Google Maps, now larger than most national mapping agencies.
• OpenTripPlanner and OpenStreetMap, how open data and open source leverage each other and are in turn re-consumed by governmnet and civil society.
• Michael H Goldhaber on the attention economy, a prescient take on content and the internet from 1997.
• Google aquires Skybox Imaging.
• Bibiana McHugh on Portland Trimet's triple open strategy: open data, open standards, open source.
• Paul Ramsey on why SDIs fail.
• The General Transit Feed Specification.
• The places developers get data now, instead of governments:
  • http://openstreetmap.org
  • http://openaddresses.io
  • https://openaerialmap.org
  • https://github.com/openimagerynetwork/oin-register
  • http://geonames.org
  • http://www.naturalearthdata.com
• Three start-ups prominent in the new take on geomatics:
  • MapBox
    • How MapBox is using automated trajectory matching, another fully automated process of data cleansing.
    • User guided feature extraction, with enhancement to the the Id OSM editor
  • CartoDB
    • Visualizing Change with CartoDB
    • Web Mapping at Scale
  • Planet Labs
    • Planet Labs already has more satellites than most governmments and are launching dozens more every year
    • How Planetlabs is rectifying the planet, with automated ground rectification of very poorly registered images at a rate of 1M images per day.