Interopability and the Future of Spatial Analysis

Intro

• I'm totally biased
• High level, long-term 
• Does not apply to all clients
• Not ground breaking

Interoperability

A property of a product or system, whose interfaces are completely understood, to work with other products or systems, present or future, without any restricted access or implementation

What's Happening?

• GIS is an integrated technology

• It will continue to integrate

• The Internet of Things
  • Interoperability x100000
  • Open-source development

http://www.esri.com/news/arcnews/winter1011articles/the-cots-approach.html

Title Text

• Desktop GIS - Bye!
• Small applications, plug and play
• Web-enabled services > shapefiles

What does this mean for us?

What do we do?

Understand everything about data

Database

Analysis

Visualization

What does this mean for us?

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