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Mapping Live Stream Webcast Across the US and Around the World

June 19, 2013 Tim Arthur0

Webcasting from San Francisco, California, Ways to Bring Your Aerial Imagery into OpenStreetMap

Earlier this month the 2013 State of the Map US conference was held in beautiful San Francisco at the Mission Bay Conference Center June 8-9, and e3 Webcasting was honored to live stream webcast video of each session around the globe. 380+ people came out to talk OpenStreetMap, learn from each other, and move the project forward. Bonnie and Alex from the MapBox team were amazing to work with and made sure we had everything we needed to make the live stream video webcast happen.

craigslist and OpenStreetMap

Dennis Watson’s presentation on building a craigslist scale map installation with OpenStreetMap (OSM) data was very insightful. He explained that craigslist serves 50 billion monthly page views to 60 million users across 700 sites in 70 countries, naturalized into 13 languages. Craigslist users post 100 million+ classified ads per month, including more than 2 million new job listings per month, and how self hosting a complete map service from top to bottom at this scale presents many challenges including: live updating of OSM data, map styling and design for sense of purpose, rendering and serving maps to end users, geocoding user input, searching geodetic data, displaying geodetic results in meaningful ways that the end user can understand, giving back to OSM with user data feedback. In his talk Dennis addressed the above issues and discussed how his team implemented the above at craigslist scale. His overview of the zoom tile numbers were staggering at 17 billion tiles. It was great to get an look inside craigslist from a mapping perspective.

OpenStreetMap and foursquare

Nathaniel V. Kelso and David Blackman’s presentation on “Introducing Quattroshapes! The Global Polygon Gazetteer”, was a really interesting insiders look into foursquare’s need for quality place data to power its geocoding engine to ensure the best user recommendations. When someone searches for best coffee in Manhattan, a simple venue to place point or venue to place bounding box search can result in venues in Manhattan and Jersey City overwhelming the results for Manhattan. To improve these recommendations, they’ve created an authoritative source of polygons around a curated list of places. This gazetteer of non-overlapping polygons provides more relevant results to users than just simple point geometries. This work is based on several factors including: geocoded photos from Flickr, foursquare checkins, and an extended version of Natural Earth. This new polygon gazetteer data is used in David Blackman’s TwoFishes, the coarse splitting geocoder (and reverse geocoder) written in scala at foursquare. It was great to get to see how foursquare and others are managing their mapping data.

Building Community in Nicaragua

Felix Delattre’s presentation on community mapping in Nicaragua was a great overview on using OpenStreetMap to get people involved and working with technology. And at the same time building community by making a map of the community. Creating an open data map helps grow the local economy and adds value to the city. His talk covered how the OpenStreetMap community gained momentum in the country, what lessons they have learned on community building with OSM, what real life problems exist, what makes mapping in Central America unique, and where the local community wants to go next. His story-telling session about his experiences, the monthly mapping parties, their influence on local politics, and communities, was very engaging.

The State of the Map US was an amazing conference with speakers ranging from the National Park Service to Voxel.js an open source port of Minecraft, to the Redcross and how maps played a huge role in the Haiti earthquake relief efforts and how the OpenStreetMap project was able to give back to the community. If you missed the conference or you missed the live stream webcast of the conference you can watch all the session videos on the State of the Map US conference website. See you next year at the conference or online.

SOTMUS 2013 Conference 411

If you’d like to learn more about the State of the Map US 2013 Conference or would like to attend a conference in the future, you can find out more by visiting the conference website or following them on Twitter:
Website: SOTMUS
Twitter: @sotmus
Conference Videos On Demand: SOTMUS 2013 Vimeo Channel

Some of our favorite Tweets from the State of the Map US 2013

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World IA Day 2013 LA Webcast, with GoToMeeting link-up

February 26, 2013 Tim Arthur0

The e3 Webcasting crew streaming

On February 9th, 2013, the IA Institute sponsored World IA Day, a 1 DAY 15 CITY event focusing on Information Architecture. Along with a team of global sponsors the local coordinators will assemble fifteen 1 DAY conferences all around the globe in 15 CITIES to build awareness and celebrate information architecture (IA).

What is Information Architecture?

Information architecture (IA) is the art and science of organizing and labeling data including: websites, intranets, online communities, software, books and other mediums of information, to support usability.[1] It is an emerging discipline and community of practice focused on bringing together principles of design and architecture, primarily to the digital landscape.[2][page needed] Typically, it involves a model or concept of information which is used and applied to activities that require explicit details of complex information systems. These activities include library systems and database development.” as defined by Wikipedia

Initial Talks

What initially started as a conversation and emails in early January between; Dan Klyn of The Understanding Group, Jeff Parks of DIGIA UX Inc., Andrea Resmini of FatDUX Group, and Laura Creekmore of Creek Content about how best to achieve a World IA Day 2013 webcast. By the end of the conversation the World IA Day 2013 Los Angeles Live Webcast from UCLA’s Charles E Young Research Library Conference Center had been birthed.

Planning Starts to Take Shape

At this point in the process, we started working with the very talented LA coordinator Alberta Soranzo as she served as liaison with the UXPA LA Board as they planned the WIAD 2013 in Los Angeles event.

The Conference Webcast

February 9th dawned a beautiful day in Los Angeles, and a crowd gathered early at the UCLA’s Charles E Young Research Library Conference Center eager to expand their IA knowledge and practice. The opening speaker of the day was Aaron Irizarry from NASDAQ OMX helping us wrap our heads around “Understanding IA.” Pulling from this years theme of what we mean when we say “architecture” and when we say “design” in our research and practice. Next up was David Fiorito of Empathy Lab speaking on “Thinking Navigation.” Following David was Greg Nudelman of DesignCaffeine, Inc. who connected with us in LA via GoToMeeting remotely from San Francisco. Greg shared an amazing mobile navigation technique he and his team have been working on. To see it in action, watch the video below.



Following lunch, Chris Chandler from the The Walt Disney Company and Lynn Boyden from USC Web Services brought us back together for the afternoon and presented on “Other People’s Problems.” And simple steps we can take to implement mentoring and the impact it can have on people’s lives. After a short break, Eric Reiss from the FatDUX Group, reminded us that “Content is still king, but its the arrows – the links that create value for our clients,” closing out the day by pulling all the presentations together with the Plenary.

Webcast Audience Reach

World IA Day 2013 LA was a smashing success! The live stream video webcast was watched by viewers in London, Germany, Sweden and beyond. Hopefully next year we can get even more World IA Day cities streaming online. Until next year…

World IA Day 2013 Conference 411

If you’d like to learn more about the World IA Day LA Conference or would like to attend next year’s conference you can find out more by visiting the conference website or following them on Twitter:
Website: World IA Day
Twitter: @WIAD_LA
Hashtag: #WIADLA
Facebook: World IA Day
Conference Videos On Demand: World IA Day YouTube Channel

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iOS App Makers’ Conference Videos

January 31, 2013 Tim Arthur0

iOS App Makers @ Renaissance iOS Conf

This January, for three days, the best of the iOS app making community came together to instruct those in attendance at the Renaissance.io conference how to excel at the business, design, and technology of making apps. e3 Webcasting was there at the Mission Bay Conference Center to capture the making of the best iOS app makers’ conference. Created by Tim Burks of Radtastical Inc., and Bill Dudney of Gala Factory, Renaissance is the iOS app makers’ conference.

App makers aren’t just programmers. They develop ideas into apps that impact our lives. To kick off day one of the conference Brenda Chapman, who wrote and directed Pixar’s Brave, was on hand to encourage the audience to “Dare It,” by daring to be and to do something different.

There’s no substitute to learning from the best. The Renaissance conference brought together experts in a variety of fields for three days of sharing knowledge and networking. Day two’s Keynote was presented by Ken Segall, ex-Creative Director for Chiat/Day, who worked with Steve Jobs to name the iMac. Ken, encouraged everyone present to “Focus It” and remind us that “Simplicity is not a trend.” Ken’s presentation really made me want to read his book “Insanely Simple.”

After creating a list of the most important subject matter for iOS app makers to know and finding the best people in the industry to speak on those topics, Renaissance’s day three was awe-inspiring. Tim Berry wrapped up the conference with the final keynote charge to go out there and “Do it.” Known as the “the Obi Wan Kenobi of Business Plans“, and Tim Berry closed with advice for critical thinking and planning that we can use to launch our ideas to success.

My top 10 take-aways from the Renaissance Conference:

  • 1. Winning in the App Store – Lux Chen of Esper Labs

    Showcases a great marketing strategy to get you on the charts plus a cross.

  • 2. Winning in the App Store – Lux Chen of Esper Labs

    Also shares a cross-promotion game plan for your game.

  • 3. Winning in the App Store – Lux Chen of Esper Labs

    Presents the per user RIO metrics to you need to know to survive.

  • 4. Winning in the App Store – Jessica Kahn of Disney Interactive Media Group

    Shares one of the research tactics Tapulous used to figure out if that app was going to be a winner or a loser.

  • 5. Apps for Everyone – Brendan Clavin of Tethras

    Presented some very interesting language data for iOS app localization.

  • 6. Apps for Everyone – Brendan Clavin of Tethras

    Shared an interesting localized SEO strategy for naming your next app.

  • 7. Apps for Everyone – Lan Lin of iPhone Localizer

    Explained the keyword difference between apps targeted at the Chinese market vs. apps targeted at the Japanese market.

  • 8. Apps for Everyone – Lan Lin of iPhone Localizer

    Provided a great tip, about how-to test different markets before localizing your complete app.

  • 9. Intentional Marketing – Tan Tmangraksat of Velti

    Showed some really fun revenue charts for iOS apps vs. other platforms.

  • 10. Intentional Marketing – Kat Gordon of Maternal Instinct and creator of the 3% Conference

    Shared the statistic that the average user has 65 apps on their phone and what that means to you as an app developer.

There were too many great take-aways from the Renaissance iOS conference to list them all here. So much so, that you should watch the videos… Click here to view the videos: Renaissance.io.

Renaissance the iOS app makers’ conference 411

If you’d like to learn more about the Renaissance Conference or would like to attend next year’s conference you can find out more by visiting the conference website or following them on Twitter:
Website: Renaissance
Twitter: @renaissanceio
Hashtag: #renio
Facebook: Renaissance

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