Geo Spatial Technology And How It Is Changing The Way We Use The Web
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Geo Spatial Technology and how it is changing the way we use the web Presented by Graham Morgan MD Spatial Consultants Ltd Chairman AGI Northern Group, UK
Geo Spatial Technology And How It Is Changing The Way We Use The Web
Presented at the Welsh Tourism Alliance Conference, Vale Resort, Cardiff, 22nd October 2010
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1. Geo Spatial Technology and how it is changing the way we use
the webPresented by Graham Morgan MD Spatial Consultants Ltd
Chairman AGI Northern Group, UK
2. 3. Expert independent advice 4. Geospatial Primer
Everything is geospatial
Everything is related by virtue of location
Geospatial data can be drawn on a map
5. Who? What? Why? When?
Where are we going on holiday?
Where are we going to stay?
What are we going to do?
Where is the nearest taxi rank?
Where are the best beaches?
Where are my friends?
Spatial Relationships
Distance from...
Contained within...
Connected to
Adjacent to
Where? 6. Where is GIS? 7. Shift Happens! Karl Fisch, Arapahoe
High School, CO Scott Macleod, Jeff Brenman 8. What is different
now?
Pace of change (demise of the record& film industries)
Speed of Communication (e.g. Twitter)
Rate of data creation
Medium of Communication (TV / newspapers -> web)
Chips with everything (e.g. intelligent fridge)
Globalisation (China has more internet users than the US)
16. Crowd Sourcing 17. Open Data 18. 19. Open Source Geospatial
Software GRASSOpenLayers In 5 years time, Open Source Geospatial
won't be a niche or a specialism, it will be a standard way that
things are done. Jo Cook FDO MapGuide 20. What Next?
Enable geography as a context
Use postcodes
Support Mobile Applications
Provide WiFiand 3G+ networks
Support Big Society
Release datasets under Open Government License
21. Geospatial Information is PervasiveIn 2015 position will be
always availablethrough Smartphones, RFID tags and other
sensors.The value to each application will be variable,but it will
always be there. 22. Thank You
