Iván Sánchez – So, Iván, – Why do we need data portals?

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Iván Sánchez

Geomancer

Free/Libre/Open Data geek

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https://dl.dropbox.com/u/7679620/SupresionAccesoServidorFtpDatos.pdf

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So, Iván,

Why do we need data portals?

Well, you really

DON'T

What you really need is

http://www.printmojo.com/phd/Store/Product.php?ProductID=12631

Without data, you get

users

With data, you get

developers,

tinkers

With just a website,

the world has a website

With data,

wonderful things start to happen

With data, you get stuff

you never did think about

http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/ It's like if Tolkien taught your Geology 101 class, but you were drunk and playing the Sims during the lecture. Then you had a dream that got them all confused.

I'm not the only one saying this

http://www.ted.com/talks/tim_berners_lee_on_the_next_web.html
http://mapbrief.com/2013/02/05/why-map-portals-dont-work-part-i/ (Part 1 of 5)

http://mapbrief.com/2013/02/05/why-map-portals-dont-work-part-i/ (Part 1 of 5) Would you visit your own map portal if there was a simpler, faster alternative?.
http://mapbox.com/blog/trouble-with-geoportals/

http://mapbox.com/blog/trouble-with-geoportals/ Some of the best geoportals I came across were also the simplest, offering bulk access endpoints on anonymous ftp servers.

Quiz! Which movie? Which scene?

Well, let's not start sucking each other's dicks quite yet.