Cognitive Dissonance

Try to hold these two concepts in my head at once… Ed Parsons, at the Open Street Map conference… Ed Parsons, at the Open Street Map conference… Ed Parsons, at the Open Street Map conference…

Just as in Hollywood, casting against type is sure to bring in the punters.

Mud

Ed Parsons, former CTO of the Ordnance Survey (organization dedicated to the monetization of proprietary data), current geospatial evangelist for Google (organization dedicated to the monetization of proprietary data), speaking to Open Street Map (organization dedicated to the free public domain data). Will there be a mud wrestling pit too?