Spatial data: Google’s Ed Parsons discusses his behind-the-scenes role

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012
As entrepreneurs generate an industry around spatial data applications, Google’s Geospatial Technologist, Ed Parsons, talks to Owen McQuade about its potential and how online developers can learn from the print media. Google’s approach to spatial data reflects how the company has used cloud computing and big data internally, Ed Parsons remarks as he takes stock of how its business has grown to date. As the corporation’s Geospatial Technologist, Parsons ‘evangelises’ its sweeping mission to “organise the world’s information using geography” through Google Earth and...[full story]

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