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Will GIS Ever be Integrated into IT?
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on Thursday August 03, @07:30AM
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GeoReport offers interesting statistics about GIS integration with IT. From the short report: "More than 41 percent say there's not enough management support for integration; nearly 20 percent say there are too few geospatial professionals who understand database technology; 17 percent believe that too few database administrators understand GIS; and only 2 percent say that database technology is too expensive."
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All Points Blog links to an article on the recurring debate this summer about the democratization of GIS and whether GIS professionals will still be as much valuable as they are now. From the article: "With the arrival of online mapping services such as Google Earth and Microsoft Virtual Earth, geographic information systems (GIS) are now at the fingertips of every Tom, Dick and Mary with an Internet connection. This strikes Vint Cerf as good news. The chief Internet evangelist at Google Inc., and one of the founding fathers of the Internet, says he’d like to see a geographic equivalent of Wikipedia — “Geopedia,” he dubs it — where anyone could add to the world’s geographic know-how. Jack Dangerman is skeptical. He’s the president of Environmental Systems Research Institute Inc., a leading GIS software vendor in Redlands, Calif., known as ESRI. He worries that even the best-intentioned amateur could provide inaccurate data that could lead to a disaster. “Who wants to dig a hole and run into a pipe?” Dangerman asks. [...] “Let’s not just democratize GIS data usage; let’s democratize data creation,” he says. Ron Lake, CEO of GIS software vendor Galdos Systems Inc. in Vancouver, says there is a place for “crowd-sourcing data,” and GIS professionals need to be willing to work with it. However, he adds, “there is such a thing as expert interpretation of information.”" See also related stories.
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