2. Our annotated world..
The role of PSI in the age of ambient information
Ed Parsons,
Geospatial Technologist
Google, London

3. Image Credit Flickr user Stefan

4. ambient information

5. 3000BC - 2003 AD = 5 exabytes

6. Today the web grows by
5 exabytes every 2 days !

7. Consumers Producers

8. Is that a sensor in your pocket ?
gyroscope
camera
light
GPS receiver
compass
accelerometer
microphone
proximity

9. 35bn
Devices connected to the Internet
Source : Vint Cerf” Cerf's Up: Social, Economic and Regulatory Issues:Internet in the Next Five to Ten Years." 2000 WorldCom, Inc.

12. Here comes everything..

13. 172.16.20.145
IPv4 2!" 4.3 billion unique addresses
2620:0000:1042:0012:0223:6c!:fe99:8003
IPv6 2#"$ unique addresses

14. 340,28

15. Physical World Virtual World

17. “In time, those Unconscionable Maps no longer satis"ed, and the Cartographers
Guilds struck a Map of the Empire whose size was that of the Empire, and which
coincided point for point with it.
The following Generations, who were not so fond of the Study of Cartography as
their Forebears had been, saw that that vast Map was Useless, and not without
some Pitilessness was it, that they delivered it up to the Inclemencies of Sun and
Winters.
In the Deserts of the West, still today, there are Tattered Ruins of that Map,
inhabited by Animals and Beggars; in all the Land there is no other Relic of the
Disciplines of Geography.”
“On Exactitude in Science.. In that Empire, the Art of Cartography”
Jorge Luis Borges, Collected Fictions, Translated by Andrew Hurley, 1999

18. The challenge is seeing less..

19. Public Sector Information

20. The case for wider access to PSI
• Transparency
• Engagement
• Accountability
• E%ciency
• Improved service delivery

22. Access to information changes behavior

23. Public Sector Information

24. Canonical data

27. PSI as a platform
Open access to Government data
• Data published in a
machine readable and
hence reusable format
• Released under an open
license, allowing free and
commercial reuse..

32. Accessibility > Quality

33. Thank you for listening..
Questions ?
eparsons@google.com
@edparsons