Bringing Geography into Everything

摘要

You're the geospatial technologist at Google, responsible for evangelising Google's mission to organise the world's information using geography. Can you describe that mission? In many ways it's quite a unique role since the number of people within Google that are really focused on outside the organisation is quite limited. A key aspect of the role is communicating what Google is trying to do in very broad terms to different communities. For me those communities specifically include the academic research community and also potential partners: people that might want to use our technology for applications they are building, or people that might want to contribute content to Google Maps. The broadest community is our users. Here, I've already spoken this week to people from travel magazines and from cookery magazines, all making use of Google technologies.