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