A look at the future of GIS.
Presented at the Irish MapInfo Users Conference, April 9th 2014
Where: Next. A look into the future of GISRichard CantwellSenior GIS Consultant GAMMA[email protected]@ManAboutCouch
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Hardware, Software, Data & Peoplehttps://flic.kr/p/b7stL4
Hardware: Becoming a Commodityhttps://flic.kr/p/89BohQ
IaaS PaaS SaaSTransitioning to Services
InternetNATServerAmazon RDSSQL ServerVPNELB ELBMappingASGSpectrumASGDynamoDBAmazon S3ELBAmazon SQSBatch SpotASGLow/Hi ASGComplex Configuration. Hybrid ApproachesAmazon S3DynamoDBELB ELB ELBReverse ProxyRouting ASG App ASG Spatial ASGOracle 10g Postgres
Location: Ubiquitous for $1.50
Sensor Web becoming a reality?CityWatch.ie
Software: In Transition
Best of Breed Solutions
Browsers: Becoming more capable
..mostly.
Data Creation inside the Browsergeojson.io
Complex Spatial Operationsjasondavies.com
JavaScript & Python emerging as keyD3js.org
Data: From scarcity to abundance
Velocity, Variety, Volume & Veracityhttps:/flic.kr/p/5C9pZF
No dataset is perfect
@GapingVoid / @FlowchainSenseiGeography: Distilling Wisdom from InformationGeography: Distilling Wisdom from Information
(Some) Data becoming a commodityVs
Cartography: A new Golden Age?
Underpinned with Crowdsourced Data
https://flic.kr/p/N9J81FSpatial Data moving to the Main Datastore
Opportunities: Postcodes
https://flic.kr/p/N9J81FChallenges: Version Control for Spatial Data
The Spatial Data Librarian
https:/flic.kr/p/68NZhLPeople: Lots of new users, from new backgrounds
Coding Skills becoming essential againalex-singleton.com
MapBasic IDEMapInfo: Tools-> Get MapBasic Utilities
GIS: A strong history and an exciting futureRichard CantwellSenior GIS Consultant GAMMA[email protected]@ManAboutCouch