'Crowdsourced data is junk'

Darrin Clement (Maponics), David Levine (Geostellar), Thomas Turnbull (Green Map) and Colin Reilly (DoITT) discussed data sources for local maps at last month's Geoweb Summit.

Sonar finds people nearby

Sonar shows you hidden connections with people nearby. Founder Brett Martin is speaking on the opening panel tomorrow at the 3rd Geoweb Summit at Dumbo Spot in Brooklyn.

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PlaceIQ 'building index of the physical world'

PlaceIQ's Duncan McCall will be on the location intelligence panel at next month's Geoweb Summit, with GeoIQ's Frank Moyer and Skyhook's Ted Morgan. Earlier this week he was at the Street Fight Summit.

Mapping with Drupal has 'a steep learning curve'

After moving to New York, British geographer Thomas Turnbull worked on the open Green Map project. 'There's some really interesting projects happening with all the open data that is coming from the US government,' he says.

'A platform win is enormous'

How to turn your app or service into a platform? Josh Rochlin (Xtify), Matt Galligan (SimpleGeo), Ted Morgan (Skyhook) and Rahul Sonnad (Geodelic) shared their insights at the 2nd Geoweb Summit.

Lumatic is pedestrian navigation by photos

Serial entrepreneur Scott Rafer will introduce his new venture Lumatic at the 3rd Geoweb Summit on November 10. 'Cities are not easy or pleasant to use,' Rafer says. 'We're fixing that.'

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'Location is what makes mobile different'

Ted Morgan, co-founder and CEO of Skyhook, was one of the keynote speakers at the Geoworld Summit in May. Skyhook pioneered wifi location, providing the foundation for the success of iPhone and Android.

Building the next geoweb platform in NYC

Michael Fives moderated the opening panel at the Geoworld Summit in May, with Ryan Charles (Consmr), Jordan Cooper (Hyperpublic), Joe Meyer (HopStop) and Hazem Sayed (AskLocal). Video provided by Humble.tv.