A quick post on Where2.0 even though I'm not there. PlanetGS is full of news. I was glued to the IRC channel most of the day.

Schuyler gave a momentous talk. Mapping the Maximum City was about mapping Mumbai to do some social good. Look for writeups about this one.

Quakr sounds like a nice idea. They can "hang" photos of buildings, scenery, etc. in the right place in a 3D view to make it seem like the photo is part of the 3D rendering. Trouble is, it's Flash based and that kind of stuff makes my CPU fan go nuts so I tend to avoid it. I look forward to having this work better as they get more experience.

Andrew Turner's talk was also well regarded in the IRC channel. He's a big GeoRSS proponent and is helping out on GeoJSON. Both truly neo-geographic in scope. He also announced a new version of GeoPress.

Microsoft announced some whizzy 3D stuff in live.local but you need a PC. I did spend some time checking out the oblique views of Boston and around my house again.

I missed a lot of the chatter about Mikel Maron and Ian Holt, but Mikel and Andrew Tuner rolled out a new version of mapufacture today. very nice looking, indeed.

Chris Schmidt outdid himself in his lightning talk, finishing early and wowing the crowd with MetaCarta Labs on-a-stick.

Graphserver sounds really nice.

I've decided there's a category of apps that's going to be a very hard sell. Weogeo fits nicely into that category. It's too hard for "real" neogeographers to figure out what to do with, but too "simple" for the full-time, old-school people to do much with. Maybe that's being a bit pessimistic, because there are some cool ideas, but they seem like they may get lost in the shuffle. GeoCommons is another one of these. Time will tell as the Where dust settles.

I was at the previous 2 Where's and it would be nice to be there now, but staying home has its good side, too...