It's getting late - but the meeting is still on...
5.30ish
@ the Weary Traveler...
I'm delayed today talking with a well-loved mapper...
on the challenges of providing infrastructure-like services to a GIS audience only to be asked and prodded:
but couldn't you also do this? and why not do that?
since it's so easy for you.
As alluded to in following year-end perspectives, if in fact GIS is becoming more embedded, mobile, ubiquitous, pervasive and free... then it becomes the role of at least some spatial practitioners to do the spatial reasoning and intelligent design of that massively- beneficial spatial information infrastructure...
this usually requires leadership - to point out the thing we all need most _and_ the required resources to get there in a sustainable way...
with apologies to LBJ, 'Come now, let us spatially reason together...'
meaning, it's not a request but a requirement to move forward in a reasoned manner. Infrastructure matters as do the knowledge workers that help build, maintain and evolve it.
And so... in brief, in meet-you-there style, don't forget to check out:
Contemporary GIS and Future Directions by Joseph K. Berry
you can also check out his online book: Map Analysis
... somewhat simple and to the point.
also there's one top manager's view of...
Industry Trends and Opportunities
GeoWorld 2006 Industry Trends and Opportunties ... telling us what we've been feeling is true.
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From the municipal matters-on-the-ground dept.
we have from NewHaven, reference to the sex appeal of zoning maps:
Sex and the Digital Appeal of Zoning Maps
as well as Fort Wayne's view of improved flood plain maps..
Municipal View of Improved Floodplain Maps
and Frederick is doing van-driven data collection:
Municipal Mobile Data Collection
it's what's in the news...
From the heard-it-through-the-podcast-vine dept., care to hear new GIS interviews in podcast format ?
Directions Mag Podcast on GIS in India
Finally, with no time to go I pass along one interesting contribution replacing State names with that of a country with equivalent GDP to that state... enjoy my friends.
http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2007/06/10/131-us-states-renamed-for-countries-with-similar-gdps/
are you weary ?
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