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| Subject: | RE: GISList: NPR, CNN, Iraq & the elusive "GIS" |
| Date: |
04/07/2003 01:10:01 AM |
| From: |
Dan McIntyre |
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Prime time television isn't the sole medium for extolling the virtues of GI=
S to the masses. Given that correspondence about the war is long past satur=
ation point, how many out there would actually absorb the 'GIS message' at =
this time anyway?=20=20
My two cents worth (& GST)...
Dan
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Dan McIntyre
Research Associate (GIS Analysis)
Key Centre for Tropical Wildlife Management
Northern Territory University
Darwin NT 0909
Australia
www.wildlife.ntu.edu.au
e-mail: dan.mcintyre@ntu.edu.au
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-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Gould [mailto:gould@lsi.uji.es]
Sent: Friday, 4 April 2003 22:57
To: gislist@geocomm.com
Subject: Re: GISList: NPR, CNN, Iraq & the elusive "GIS"
Anthony seems surprised that people on the street i.e. the press, do not=20
talk about GIS.
This seems strange to some of us deeply embedded in the GIS field, but in=
=20
the end "normal" people care about results, not the technologies behind the=
=20
scenes. I can imagine that experts in tire rubber compounds are amazed that=
=20
Formula-1 commentators only talk about speed, positions, how much drivers=
=20
get paid, etc. and do not focus enough on how well a certain tire seems to=
=20
be adhering :-)
Earthviewer lets people see Bagdad. They don't care how many GISs it took=
=20
to produce each view or which SUN server is driving the web site.
Just an observation.
cheers
Mike Gould
sig below
At 16:22 03/04/2003 -0500, Anthony Quartararo wrote:
>Just listened to an NPR report on the media's use of various
>graphic-intensive tools to illustrate the ongoing war in Iraq. It was a
>nice piece, Keyhole's CEO had a few blurbs, and DigitalGlobe got a few plu=
gs
>too. I've seen the new coverage and the celebrity anchors and talking hea=
ds
>use the "John Madden War Telestrator" tools (aka. Earthviewer with Digital
>Globe). Not once though, did Keyhole's CEO or even the NPR commentator
>mention "GIS", "spatial information", "geography" or even the ambiguous
>"location-based services". My first reaction is one of yet another
>opportunity lost to plant the "GIS flag" firmly in the public's view, but
>after a few minutes of reflection, I can't seem to make the case for why
>this is truly a "lost opportunity". The public is well aware, now at leas=
t,
>of the ability and tools available to bring information (the good, the bad
>and the ugly) right into their own homes in near real-time. Keyhole's CEO
>admitted that they had never really anticipated Earthviewer.com would be
>used in the way the TV media has for this war (hindsight on this would
>scream "why not..."), and so the Keyhole engineers have been swamped with
>trying to keep up with traffic generated by coverage on TV. It's good for
>business, as the claim of subscription's doubling in the last 2 weeks is no
>doubt good for business, it is also good for the industry, and further
>solidifies growing evidence that GIS is mainstream. If going mainstream
>means that "GIS" loses it's relative identity, that may be a small price to
>pay for realizing the full potential of a global market. Food for thought.
>
>Anthony
>
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Michael Gould
Depto. Lenguajes y Sistemas Inform=E1ticos
(Information Systems Department)
Universitat Jaume I
E-12071 Castell=F3n (Spain)
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