201236 flaherty anthony future directions of spatial technology

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Future Directions of Spatial Technology

Anthony OFlahertySpatial Manager/Consultant - NT

March 2012
http://twitter.com/


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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
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzvv3q4S_a4http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzvv3q4S_a4


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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


...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


...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


...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



. It spreads to the other databases


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Data Quality



. It spreads to the other databases


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Data Quality


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Open and Crowd Sourced Data


...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]
http://twitter.com/

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