Can this be a vision that is totally disruptive, not now but but 5 (or 10) years in the future?
It looks like GitHub is looking at allowing collaborations between knowledge domains. Within their blog post, it said "People are already using GitHub to store everything from Chicago zipcodes to community radio stations to historic hurricane paths, and we can't wait to see what the community will begin to collaborate on next."
So I am guessing that GitHub is putting a few small services that folks could use with the collaborations. Mapping services is one of them, another could be public transport information services. I think it all depends on what kind of data are being held in GitHub.
Now, if this collaboration idea is spun off to someone like to DropBox where there are truck loads of data in there, we could see some interesting things.
It looks like GitHub is looking at allowing collaborations between knowledge domains. Within their blog post, it said "People are already using GitHub to store everything from Chicago zipcodes to community radio stations to historic hurricane paths, and we can't wait to see what the community will begin to collaborate on next."
So I am guessing that GitHub is putting a few small services that folks could use with the collaborations. Mapping services is one of them, another could be public transport information services. I think it all depends on what kind of data are being held in GitHub.
Now, if this collaboration idea is spun off to someone like to DropBox where there are truck loads of data in there, we could see some interesting things.