Issues in GIS
| May 16, 2011 GIS Talks from RedlandsIssues in GISThere are some interesting talks available online from Redlands GIS Week. The event was held this past February at Esri’s headquarters in Redlands, California. The week was focused on discussing the current and future state of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI). Over three days, a series of workshop and talks focusing on crowd-sourced geographic data were ... read more November 19, 2010Why GIS Doesn’t Replace the Need for SurveyorsIssues in GISWith all the readily available aerial and satellite imagery, it is a legitimate questions to ask if GIS can be used to replace surveyors to understand property issues and to resolve legal disputes involving parcel lines. The ability to access Google Maps or a local agency’s online mapping application to look up parcel lines and ... read more August 29, 2010 Of Interest: PrivacyIssues in GISA few articles of interest that deal with privacy and geospatial technology: Mike Elgan argues that the use of satellite imagery by local governments to monitor compliance is a violation of the 4th-Ammendment protection against unreasonable searches. As part of his opinion piece, Elgan cites the example of the town of Riverhead on Long Island which ... read more August 2, 2010 Street View Legal Issues Keep Google BusyIssues in GISThe UK Guardian reports that almost half of the sixty worldwide legal or criminal investigations against Google involve their Street View imagery. Currently, there are 28 of them with eleven occurring within the United States. Aqute Intelligence, a competitive analysis firm, produced a Google Maps display of some of the lawsuits against Google. [T]he search giant ... read more May 10, 2010 Not your father's approach to geodata creation and sharingIssues in GISWhat do the pundits say about crowd-sourcing GIS data and its future? Peter Batty assembled a group of some of the loudest voices in that debate for a panel at GITA’s recent conference. The video’s an hour and 45 minutes long but worth the watch if you’re interesting in the issue of collective and open ... read more Not your father’s approach to geodata creation and sharingIssues in GISWhat do the pundits say about crowd-sourcing GIS data and its future? Peter Batty assembled a group of some of the loudest voices in that debate for a panel at GITA’s recent conference. The video’s an hour and 45 minutes long but worth the watch if you’re interesting in the issue of collective and open ... read more March 21, 2010 What Happened to Neogeography?Issues in GISWith the premise that “online references to neogeography are on the decline” Sean Connin discusses whether this “trend may reflect our growing acceptance of the new mapping democracy and it’s place in popular culture.” Connin looks at the popularity of search terms neogeography, GIS, Google Earth, and Google Maps over time as a way of ... read more December 14, 2009 Take the Directions Media 2009 Reader SurveyIssues in GISDirections Media, an online GIS publication, has made their annual reader survey available. The survey this year looks how readers read Directions Media and other sources of news online for GIS. Results will be published soon in 2010. Take the survey and you can register to win an Amazon Kindle. Take the Survey: Directions Media 2009 ... read more October 26, 2009To What End, GIS?Career, Issues in GISDon Meltz blogs his thoughts on the myth of the GIS professional in his post, “GIS is Dead – Long Live GIS“. By comparing GIS to Word Processing, Meltz draws the conclusion that viewing GIS as a profession is outdated and that those looking to getting into GIS as a profession shouldn’t do so. Instead, ... read more October 14, 2009Continuing the Google Data DebateData, Issues in GISPaul Bissett of Weogeo.com weighs in on the recent dropping of TeleAtlas by Google and addition of parcel data to its mapping applications and API in his article “GOOG = BORG, and I Mean That in the Nicest Way“. Bissett discusses why he believes Googles made these moves and the implications for data vendors such ... read more |
