IMAGIN 2013 Keynote - The Future of GIS: Gotta Wear Shades

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1. The Future of
   GIS: Gotta
   Wear Shades
   James Fee
   @cageyjames
   

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2. Photo by JKönig - http://flic.kr/p/s9CUo
   Retro
   

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5. History of GIS
   

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6. Early Map Makers
   

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8. Classic Cartography
   

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9. Not Much Happens for 300 Years
   

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10. Photo by sylvar - http://flic.kr/p/o8EML
    Photo by drmacro -
    http://flic.kr/p/83i2aa
    

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11. Computer Science
    

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14. CAD
    

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15. Esri in the 70’s
    

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16. ArcInfo
    

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17. ARC/INFO Required Prime Computer
    

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24. ArcGIS Desktop
    

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25. ArcGIS Desktop
    

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28. Why The History Lesson?
    

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29. Photo by dullhunk - http://flic.kr/p/zDLZm
    

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31. A Simpler Time
    

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32. Problems with Wizards
    • Wizards cause us to conform
    • Options are either preset or
    confusing
    • Lack of documenting the
    process
    

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33. Familiarity is a Tough Nut to
    Crack
    Most GIS
    Professionals
    only know
    ArcToolbox
    

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35. With the Command Line
    • Freedom to work with the data as you want
    • Better understanding of the commands
    • Combined with scripting you have a recipe
    for future work. AKA documentation!
    

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36. The “New” Way
    • Start up ArcCatalog (wait 2-4 min while it loads)
    • Browse for toolbox (clicking through the endless tree)
    • Open tool dialog
    • Browse for input dataset
    • Browse for any optional data for analysis
    • Browse for an output location
    • Fill out options
    • Click OK and pray it doesn’t crash
    

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37. Photo by TheNixer - http://flic.kr/p/yZvyU
    Photo by TheNixer - http://flic.kr/p/yZvyU
    

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38. The “Classic” Way
    • Start up Command Prompt (about a second)
    • Type simple command (BUILD, CLIP, etc)
    • Hit Enter
    • Tell everyone how hard it was
    

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39. Python!
    

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41. Scripting With GIS
    • AML
    • SML
    • Avenue
    • Visual Basic for Applications *
    • VBScript
    • JavaScript
    • Perl
    • Tcl
    • Python
    

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42. Where is Python Used?
    • GIS Applications (ArcGIS, QGIS, Safe FME,
    Autodesk)
    • Web Frameworks (WeoGeo.com, Google)
    • Anywhere (Corel, Civilization, Gmail)
    • Become the de-facto scripting language
    

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43. ArcPy, the New Command
    Line
    • Much like the Arc prompt and AML, ArcPy and Python
    give us a powerful analysis and scripting method.
    • ArcPy builds on the commands we learned 15 years ago.
    • ArcPy is integrated in ArcMap
    • Python can be extended to other GIS platforms such as
    QGIS.
    

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44. AML Scripting
    in ARC/INFO
    clip soils studbndy stdysoil
    

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45. Python Scripting
    in ArcGIS
    arcpy.Clip_analysis(soils.shp, studbndy.shp, stdysoil)
    

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46. Python Scripting With ArcPy
    import arcpy
    from arcpy import env
    env.workspace = "c:/workspace"
    #variables
    in_features = "soils.shp"
    clip_features = "study_boundary.shp"
    out_feature_class = "c:/workspace/output/study_area_soils.shp"
    xy_tolerance = ""
    # Execute Clip
    arcpy.Clip_analysis(in_features, clip_features,
    out_feature_class, xy_tolerance)
    

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47. http://www.flickr.com/photos/wwarby/2989238425/
    Python
    

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48. Export to KML
    import arcpy
    arcpy.CheckOutExtension(“3D”)
    env.workspace = "c:/workspace"
    # variables
    in_feature = "c:/data/TIGER2009/04/ARIZONA/tl_2009_04_county.lyr"
    out_feature = "c:/temp/output.kmz"
    # Execute KML Export
    arcpy.LayerToKML_conversion(in_feature, out_feature,1)
    

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49. Export to KML
    arcpy.LayerToKML_conversion(input.shp, output.kml, scale)
    

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50. Python Libraries
    

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51. Rainbows and Unicorns
    

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52. OK, great…
    But what about the future?
    

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53. Where GIS is headed…
    1. Mobile
    2. Hosted
    3. Specialized
    4. Generalized
    5. Scripted
    6. 3D
    7. Responsive
    

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54. Mobile
    

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55. Hosted
    Photo by Ezra.Wolfe -
    http://flic.kr/p/7UUnB9
    

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56. Specialized
    

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57. Generalized
    

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58. Scripted
    

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59. 3D
    

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60. Responsive
    

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61. It’s teh awesome!
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/soundfromwayout/143822346
    

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62. Thanks!
    Questions/Comments?
    james.fee@urs.com
    @cageyjames
    spatiallyadjusted.com
    

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