The thrust of the program for the 2006 conference will answer the question “where’s the value”? Also from the announcement… Drill down topics and themes for 2006:
– Yellow pages data providers
– Online local advertisement systems like Google, Yahoo!, MSN
– Demographics information
– New geo map hacking world
– Money-making mash-ups and hot start-ups
– Mobile, like uLocate and Plazes
– Security applications (fraud detection, tracking, surveillance), geospam, privacy
– Enterprise integration of Google Maps, open source tools, etc.
– Adding mashups into small business internal purposes to help efficiency, increase revenue
– Map visualization techniques