"What on Earth is Gis?"
Digital Shoreditch, 2015
James Milner
@JamesLMilner
jmilner@esriuk.com
loxodrome.io
"So yeah, what's
this GIS thing anyway?"
Geographic information systems
"That's like, maps right?"
Kind of ...
but not exactly
systems for dealing with geographic data
Edit
Store
Retrieve
Analyse
Visualise
Query
Distribute
Route
Modeling Geographic Data
Coordinate Systems
"Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful."
George E. P. Box
using GIS to
find new insights
an early example....
A Modern Example...
but its not just supermarkets
but that's only one aspect
DESKTOP GIS
Web GIS
The future of GIS
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BIG Data
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Internet of things
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3D
After thoughts...
thanks
@JamesLMilner
jmilner@esriuk.com