SMALLWORLD User Group e.V. - die Anwendergemeinschaft zum Smallworld™ GIS. What is GIS? Why after 30+ years, do I feel like the field has an identity crisis? « Smathermather's Weblog. A few of great articles/presentation have come out recently(ish) on the nature of geospatial industry identity. 3 of note: 1) Paul Ramsey’s talk: Spatial IT & the Spatial Web 2) Brian Timoney’s post: If Mapping is So Big, Why Does GIS Feel So Small?
3) James Fee’s short, but (apparently) inflammatory post: Goes Without Saying These three sources are highlighting aspects of GIS/Geospatial industry’s shifting identity. Here I summarize their questions, or the questions they are trying to answer thusly: What is GIS? These questions and fewer will be addressed here! Now, there are a few things fueling shifts in the GeoSpatial industry.
More importantly in the shifts that are taking place, ESRI is no longer the exclusive GeoSpatial Brain Trust. I have thought a lot about the question of whether GIS is “spatial IT”, and the longer I think about it, the more I think, “Ya, kinda.” Why am I not so sure? And why then the artificial distinction between GIS and Planning? So, is/should GIS be Spatial IT?
View Beautiful (and Offline) Maps in #swgis. Recently, I have seen much excitement around MapBox's TileMill and the beautiful maps that can be created with that tool.
You can definitely do some cool stuff with TileMill. That made me think back to a year or two ago when I was creating custom map tiles using Maperitive. So I updated my version of Maperitive and had a look. The GUI has had many improvements since I last used it and I really like the Python-based scripting that is now supported.
You can also do some really cool map creation with Maperitive. So I thought that it might be helpful to see if we could view these formats within Smallworld. iFactor Consulting's Web Maps Connector (disclosure: I am the product manager for this product) has been focused on web-based map sources. What does that mean for Smallworld users? The following video provides some more details of how this all works. Recent Changes - Smallworld GIS Wiki. Geospatial Systems - Geospatial Mapping Solutions. DIgSILENT GmbH. News. FCSI - Let's do the Impossible! Forums & Blogs - Smallworld GIS Wiki.
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