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Fritz works for Auraria Library in Denver, assisting people who want to incorporate spatial information into their research. Outside of her job, Fritz also helps lead a MeetUp group - gathering here tonight - that's merging data about buildings into a Crowdsourced map of the area. A policy adviser and analyst named Josef Koller believes this plethora of frequently updated information might lead to a tipping point he dubs the Geoint Singularity: a time when people with no particular expertise or wealth have access to geospatial data and its interpretation in real time, providing the power to investigate any place as it is right now. While Spyker and McAndrew chat in the corner, group leader Fritz tells Burt how to register so that he can see data from the Denver Regional Council of Governments - which, according to Fritz, "we lovingly call Dr. Cog.". [Extracted from the article]

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