What is GIS for the Google Generation?

ESRC Research Methods, University Oxford, Oxford - Alex D Singleton - 1/7/08

1. www.spatial-literacy.org www.publicprofiler.org Alex D Singleton Research Fellow Department of Geography and Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis University College London
2. www.spatial-literacy.org www.publicprofiler.org “GIS"
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4. www.spatial-literacy.org www.publicprofiler.org Google Maps GIS Google Earth Linear Scale (y) Searches by keyword relative to all searches Demonstrates order of magnitude
5. www.spatial-literacy.org www.publicprofiler.org • 14k People ESRI User Conference – Compared RGS – 1-1.5k – Compared AAG – 9k • GIS needs to redefine the market – Science! – Google - Visualisation
6. www.spatial-literacy.org www.publicprofiler.org 14% 3% 5% 5% 6% 6% 7% 7% 13% 35% ESRI Intergraph GE Autodesk Leica Mapinfo IBM SICAD Logica Other http://www.gismonitor.com/news/pr/110702_Daratech.pdf
7. www.spatial-literacy.org www.publicprofiler.org • Global Spending $1.8bn – $544 million was spent by U.S. federal, state and local government agencies (~30%) – ESRI has roughly 80 percent of the software market share in the US federal, state and local government (~ $435m ) http://www.washingtontechnology.com/print/20_8/25991-1.html?topic=state
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19. www.spatial-literacy.org www.publicprofiler.org In studying and/or promoting web- technology, the phrase Web 2.0 can refer to a perceived second generation of web-based communities and hosted services — such as social- networking sites, wikis, and folksonomies — which aim to facilitate creativity, collaboration, and sharing between users. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2 http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html
20. www.spatial-literacy.org www.publicprofiler.org 3rd Party Application Builder Data : ! •Open Formats •Geo-RSS •KML •XML •“Tiles”
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32. www.spatial-literacy.org www.publicprofiler.org • 26 countries in America, Europe, Asia and Oceania • Total population of 1 billion people (individual level data for 300 million people) • 10.8 million unique surnames • 6.5 million unique forenames • Statistics at postcode level
33. www.spatial-literacy.org www.publicprofiler.org Surnames UK Electoral Roll Forenames Pablo Mateos Garcia Pérez ... Juan Rosa Marta ... Sánchez Rodríguez ... • Several iterations until self-contained cluster is exhausted • Cluster assigned an Onomap Type
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39. www.spatial-literacy.org www.publicprofiler.org Select Multiple Layers •Tiles •Remotely Hosted Fade Control Close Legend
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41. www.spatial-literacy.org www.publicprofiler.org Fantasy Architecture Real-time Render
42. www.spatial-literacy.org www.publicprofiler.org Virtual Places & Virtual Globes – Second Life Embedded GI
43. www.spatial-literacy.org www.publicprofiler.org • Global pin board • Meta data? • Google type technology – display / sharing – What about the science?