I've been quite interested in working with geo-spacial data and information lately and was grateful to have had this link shared with me from Francis, a coleage of mine. Here's a great overview of the future of geo-spacial data storage and the visualization of it. It's great to see a large and exponential growth of interest in this field as a number of smaller organization stem up to fund the progression of these advancing technologies.

Andrew Turner: Beyond Google Maps

• http://events.carsonified.com/fowa/2008/london/videos/andrew-turner