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Future Directions of Spatial Technology
Anthony OFlahertySpatial Manager/Consultant - NT
March 2012
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Agenda
Past present and future specialspacial things that are really cool.
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Background: Surveyors and GIS staff work closely together toachieve various products / services to clients.
Problem: Surveyors always had first dibs on all the good jiggers and
RTK equipment, and GIS people required equipment use also, buthad no $$$.
Solution.
Solving a business problem
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The GIS jigger solution
Total Cost =
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The message?
Solution matched to business requirements(accuracy, ease of use, export functions, etc).
Need to be creative to achieve the required
outcome.
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Lets make a web site
Back in the90s.
MacromediaDreamweaver
v2 on yourdesktop
Consultants
made $$$
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But then
Everyone got inon the act!
So how do web
developerssurvive today?
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Now
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The message?
Web developers have evolved and diversified their skills tomake solid $$$
Content Pluggins (weather, social media, ecommerce)
Customisation Marketing strategies Integration Skinning / template design / user interface
Graphic design / graphics / photography
Content Management aligned with KnowledgeManagement System (KMS) framework
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Early days of desktop GIS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzvv3q4S_a4
A demo of MapInfo 2.0 used at trade shows in1988. This version went on to be known asMapInfo for DOS
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ye good ol GIS definition
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Uncertainty of the Future
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Technology Timeline
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What about the desktop realm?
Tool plateau Enhanced user experience (GUI) Note
the Ribbon GUI
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And the rest?
Cloud Definition
According to the ever reliable Wikipedia:
...Cloud computing refers to the logical computational resources like
software and data accessible via a computer network rather than from a local
computer...
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The Cloud
What is the Spatial Industry doing with the cloud andwhat does this mean for the GIS end user?
What the? As a Service?
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The Cloud
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The Cloud
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The Cloud
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The Cloud
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The Cloud
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Integration
Integration Definition
According to the ever reliable Wikipedia:
...integration is the process of linking together different computing systems
and software applications physically or functionally, to act as a coordinated
whole...
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Integration
Link Integration
Database Integration
System Integration
Full True Integration
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Integration
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Data Proliferation
According to the ever reliable Wikipedia:
...Data proliferation refers to the prodigious amount of data, structured andunstructured, that businesses and governments continue to generate at anunprecedented rate and the usability problems that result from attempting tostore and manage that data...
Data Proliferation
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Data Quality
According to the ever reliable Wikipedia:
...The state of completeness, validity, consistency, timeliness and accuracythat makes data appropriate for a specific use...
Data Quality
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Data Quality
Bad Data behaves like a virus
Starts with one record.
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Data Quality
Bad Data behaves like a virus
Starts with one record.
. It spreads to the other databases
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Data Quality
Bad Data behaves like a virus
Starts with one record.
. It spreads to the other databases
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Data Quality
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Open and Crowd Sourced Data
According to the ever reliable Wikipedia:
...Crowdsourcing is the act of outsourcing tasks, traditionally performed by anemployee or contractor, to an undefined, large group of people or community(a "crowd"), through an open call...
Crowd Sourced definition
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Open and Crowd Sourced Data
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Conclusion
The all consuming Cloud
Open source everything key driver
Application soup
You wont find data, the data will find you
Super-data
Joe Citizen GIS Data Officer
Let go?
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Conclusion
More than ever before, businessrequirements need to be clearly identified
and defined.
To achieve the solution we must continue to
be adaptive, creative andopen minded.
This is how we will survive the trough of
disillusionment.
Anthony OFlahertySpatial Manager/Consultant - NT
TONKIN CONSULTING34/16 Charlton Court, Woolner NT 0820
T: 08 8981 7155E: [email protected]
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