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
2. Photo by JKönig - http://flic.kr/p/s9CUo Retro
5. History of GIS
6. Early Map Makers
8. Classic Cartography
9. Not Much Happens for 300 Years
10. Photo by sylvar - http://flic.kr/p/o8EML Photo by drmacro - http://flic.kr/p/83i2aa
11. Computer Science
14. CAD
15. Esri in the 70’s
16. ArcInfo
17. ARC/INFO Required Prime Computer
24. ArcGIS Desktop
25. ArcGIS Desktop
28. Why The History Lesson?
29. Photo by dullhunk - http://flic.kr/p/zDLZm
31. A Simpler Time
32. Problems with Wizards • Wizards cause us to conform • Options are either preset or confusing • Lack of documenting the process
33. Familiarity is a Tough Nut to Crack Most GIS Professionals only know ArcToolbox
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!
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
37. Photo by TheNixer - http://flic.kr/p/yZvyU Photo by TheNixer - http://flic.kr/p/yZvyU
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
39. Python!
41. Scripting With GIS • AML • SML • Avenue • Visual Basic for Applications * • VBScript • JavaScript • Perl • Tcl • Python
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
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.
44. AML Scripting in ARC/INFO clip soils studbndy stdysoil
45. Python Scripting in ArcGIS arcpy.Clip_analysis(soils.shp, studbndy.shp, stdysoil)
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)
47. http://www.flickr.com/photos/wwarby/2989238425/ Python
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)
49. Export to KML arcpy.LayerToKML_conversion(input.shp, output.kml, scale)
50. Python Libraries
51. Rainbows and Unicorns
52. OK, great… But what about the future?
53. Where GIS is headed… 1. Mobile 2. Hosted 3. Specialized 4. Generalized 5. Scripted 6. 3D 7. Responsive
54. Mobile
55. Hosted Photo by Ezra.Wolfe - http://flic.kr/p/7UUnB9
56. Specialized
57. Generalized
58. Scripted
59. 3D
60. Responsive
61. It’s teh awesome! http://www.flickr.com/photos/soundfromwayout/143822346
62. Thanks! Questions/Comments? james.fee@urs.com @cageyjames spatiallyadjusted.com