Table of Contents GEO 565 Term Projects, Extra Credits, Due Midnight, this Friday
Course Evaluations Please use a #2 Pencil only! Section 10 = Monday Section 11 = W morning Section 12 = W afternoon
“This one says, ‘I think I would have learned a lot more if the course had been conducted in talk-show format.’”
The Future of GIS
Recap
Why speculate on the future?
Speculating on GIS's future is valuable because of:
Geographic Information Science
http://www.ucgis.org
REPRESENTATION and ANALYSIS
Research Priorities for Geographic Information Science
Compared to 10 years ago:
Trends in GIS Data
The Digital Earth
Digital Explosion
40 km
10 km
4 km
2 km
1 km
1 km
1 km
1 km
30 m
10 m
4 m
2 m
1 m
Vice President’s Digital Earth Vision
Al Gore cont.
PPT Slide
PPT Slide
GIS Improvements
GIS Trends
Some of the future is NOW!
Web GIS
GeoSpatial Trends and the Internet
What You Should Know...
But there are some real issues.
Societal: Effectiveness?
Election Planning Monitoring in South Africa
Societal Issue: Democratic Access
Where to Go From Here
Last Web Site of the Week
GIS: Going In Style
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