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| Subject: | Re: [gislist] What is happening to GIS? |
| Date: |
10/04/2005 08:00:02 AM |
| From: |
Ganapathy V. |
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Hi all!
One more respondent to this interesting mail. Obviously the shift in paradi=
gm from a traditional tool for the use for specialist to business people fo=
r decision making and analysis, has been a big revolution.
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But, in a developing country like India where GIS is still in the acceptanc=
e mode. People still feel the need of complete assurance before adopting f=
or GIS. Unless the government factor is introduced. But compared to may be =
90=92s, people now a days are more keen on knowing about GIS and trying to =
experiment in which way they could incorporate GIS for their applications. =
Even certain sects which where hesitant to introduce GIS due to the cost fa=
ctor associated with it are now slowly changing there orientation. Which ba=
sically is a good sign for country like India due to the potential it posse=
ss. =
But somehow I still fell that the charm of GIS has been over shadowed by th=
e excessive involvement of IT along with it. =
Many of my colleagues in various organizations around always ask me if its =
so advantageous then why is it not so commonly used? I said its part of tec=
hnological evolution you have to let it evolve and I=92m sure keeping the c=
urrent rate of technological development, it will sooner be more better acc=
epted.
Peace!
Ganapathy
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "hvp" <hvp@regiononepdc.org>
Reply-To: hvp@regiononepdc.org
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 12:11:14 -0400
>
>...on another note: however much i may have had disagreements with, i miss=
the view-points and occasional rants of dimitri etc. we had google maps+go=
ogle/virtual earth launched earlier, but not much discussion on the blindsi=
ding in this list.
>harsh prakash
>
>---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
>From: "Anthony Quartararo" <ajq3@spatialnetworks.com>
>Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 11:23:43 -0400
>
>At the risk of being in the minority on this issue, I think the days of GIS
>professionals having "command of the powers" of spatial analysis, as an
>exclusive club, are long gone and the genie can never be put back in the
>bottle. Is that a great thing, well, not necessarily for true-blue
>geographers, however, it is a long, sought-after validation of the
>profession. The general acceptance and mainstreaming of the technology, in
>whole or in parts, is something that should be applauded as "about damn
>time", and not cause dedicated professionals to retreat to the highest
>points of the ivory tower. =
>
>"Is the GIS world becoming too complex ?" Hardly... =
>
>"GIS" is not, nor has it ever been the exclusive domain for so called
>"environmental" applications, and the fact that "GIS" technology is finding
>new and ever creative and innovative applications in domains other than
>"environmentally warm and fuzzy" fields, is of tremendous value to the
>industry, the profession and the overall growth and advancement of the
>technology. =
>
>What would you have "GIS" do, remove itself from everything except watersh=
ed
>analysis, habitat conservation studies, etc ? Is GoogleEarth that much of a
>threat ? =
>
>The market "gets a vote", and if there is no value in a particular service
>or product offering that using GIS technology, count on the market to
>determine whether or not that product/service has a short life span or not.
>The fact that there are still GIS professionals, foresters, wildlife
>biologist, business demographers, analysts, developers, researchers and
>academics involved, ever day in GIS theory, practice and innovation is both
>cause and effect, that is, proof that we are still needed, and still
>important to our own universe and the greater universe at large, regardless
>of what your business card reads.
>
>Anthony
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: gislist-bounces@lists.geocomm.com
>[mailto:gislist-bounces@lists.geocomm.com] On Behalf Of Fiona Gregory
>Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 10:54 PM
>To: gislist@lists.geocomm.com
>Subject: [gislist] What is happening to GIS?
>
>Internet map servers...
>
>..spatial database engines..
>
>..object oriented programming..
>
>and all most end users really want to do is map our data. And maybe do a
>little spatial analysis. Like we learned that GIS was supposed to be for,
>way back in our first Intro to GIS class, except we never did get to
>analysis part, because we spend the whole course trying to figure out why
>the program kept hanging. Then when we got menus instead of command lines,
>we thought the age of "GIS for everyone" was dawning. And now...
>
>Am I crazy, or is the GIS world getting way too complex? Deeper and deeper
>into the rarefied
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