My lightning talk yesterday went pretty well, there is a flickr photo of me stating “Steven gave a great lightning talk obituary for MapBuilder at the Plenary session.” There was a wonderful talk by Schuyler, which fortunately is videotaped, but due to the insane slow internet I haven’t seen yet. Also fun was the talk by Ed Parsons from google. He talked (amongst others) about Map Maker and a fairly though discussion resulted about OSM, map maker and data sharing. The interesting bit is that they’re not against sharing their data, it is just that they don’t have a proper license to do so (nor does OSM for that matter). It will be interesting to see what is going to happen in this space. Apparently the lawyers think that it is all public domain and don’t fancy writing a proper CC/FOSS-style license for geodatasets. They state that geodata are facts and facts are not copyrightable.
Unfortunately today was slightly less successful, apparently quite some presenters couldn’t make it after all and three of the talks I was looking forward to weren’t there. SO hopefully the BOF on openlayers and extjs will be better. Interesting projects to look into at home so far are: QGIS-mapserver and Mapfaces.
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