Where: Next

A look at the future of GIS.

Presented at the Irish MapInfo Users Conference, April 9th 2014

Transcript

1. Where: Next. A look into the future of GIS
   Richard Cantwell
   Senior GIS Consultant GAMMA
   richard.cantwell@gamma.ie
   @ManAboutCouch
   

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2. Hardware, Software, Data & People
   https://flic.kr/p/b7stL4
   

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3. Hardware: Becoming a Commodity
   https://flic.kr/p/89BohQ
   

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4. IaaS PaaS SaaS
   Transitioning to Services
   

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5. Internet
   NAT
   Server
   Amazon RDS
   SQL Server
   VPN
   ELB ELB
   Mapping
   ASG
   Spectrum
   ASG
   DynamoDB
   Amazon S3
   ELB
   Amazon SQS
   Batch Spot
   ASG
   Low/Hi ASG
   Complex Configuration. Hybrid Approaches
   Amazon S3
   DynamoDB
   ELB ELB ELB
   Reverse Proxy
   Routing ASG App ASG Spatial ASG
   Oracle 10g Postgres
   

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6. Location: Ubiquitous for $1.50
   

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7. Sensor Web becoming a reality?
   CityWatch.ie
   

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8. Software: In Transition
   

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9. Best of Breed Solutions
   

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10. Browsers: Becoming more capable
    

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11. ..mostly.
    

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12. Data Creation inside the Browser
    geojson.io
    

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13. Complex Spatial Operations
    jasondavies.com
    

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14. JavaScript & Python emerging as key
    D3js.org
    

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15. Data: From scarcity to abundance
    

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16. Velocity, Variety, Volume & Veracity
    https:/flic.kr/p/5C9pZF
    

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17. No dataset is perfect
    

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18. @GapingVoid / @FlowchainSensei
    Geography: Distilling Wisdom from Information
    Geography: Distilling Wisdom from Information
    

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19. (Some) Data becoming a commodity
    Vs
    

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20. Cartography: A new Golden Age?
    

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21. Underpinned with Crowdsourced Data
    

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22. https://flic.kr/p/N9J81F
    Spatial Data moving to the Main Datastore
    

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23. Opportunities: Postcodes
    

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24. https://flic.kr/p/N9J81F
    Challenges: Version Control for Spatial Data
    

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25. The Spatial Data Librarian
    

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26. https:/flic.kr/p/68NZhL
    People: Lots of new users, from new backgrounds
    

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27. Coding Skills becoming essential again
    alex-singleton.com
    

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28. MapBasic IDE
    MapInfo: Tools-> Get MapBasic Utilities
    

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29. GIS: A strong history and an exciting future
    Richard Cantwell
    Senior GIS Consultant GAMMA
    richard.cantwell@gamma.ie
    @ManAboutCouch
    

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