## Smart Maps report ### 2024-06-26 {%hackmd WdEeg3SdQ-OHU9QFfiW1hg %} ---- ## Topics today 1. Our community management style 1. New developments 1. Ongoing developments ---- ## Our community management style - The **bazaar style** of people management - characterized by a high degree of **autonomy** and collaboration - with problems and solutions being **identified and defined by the team**. - Its advantage is that it can produce innovative and resilient results - It can also create a sense of **freedom, empowerment, and ownership** for team members, - who can shape their own work, express their own voice, and pursue their own growth. Source: [Ben Balter: Cathedral vs Bazaar People Management](https://ben.balter.com/2023/12/08/cathedral-bazaar-management/) ---- ## New developments - Smart Maps Campus (revitalized) - With Santosh Gaikwad, Nascent Info - [3D Data from Taichi Furuhashi Lab](https://sketchfab.com/mapconcierge/collections/b4d7c2f179534d1daf5118ebbb83c6e1-df275ec44c0943cc9b031075cd1bccac) - [Smart Maps Town Watch](https://hackmd.io/U8U02tKeS264CbYck-ijEA) - With Slayer Chuang, GeoThings and HOT - Smart Maps Challenges - With [Albert Kochaphum](https://albertmaps.com/about), UCLA - Geovisualization challenges as online platform with focus on students and young professionals. ---- ## Ongoing developments - FOIL4G (Free and Open Information Library for Geospatial) - Concept: open geodata sharing automated by LLM (with GitHub Copilot Workspace). - Vision: rough concensus, flowing data. - Prototyped by yuiseki and hfu - promising concept, but boring process. - Better if connected with other activities - Smart Maps Challenges for human communications - Smart Maps Town Watch for situational temporary information ---- ### https://unopengis.github.io/foil4g/  ---- ## Thank you #### Keep web maps open for a better world. #### Test new technologies for future geospatial operations.