GIS Update - Travels of a GIS Gypsy
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The document discusses the role and evolution of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in various sectors, emphasizing its importance for decision support and spatial data management. It outlines key areas where GIS provides value to clients, including facilities management and project management, while highlighting the growing recognition of geospatial capabilities in government activities. The presentation also addresses future trends in GIS, such as specialization, quality expectations, and the rise of collaborative data maintenance.
GIS Update - Travels of a GIS Gypsy
- 1. Passport to Travel GIS Update Edinburgh 6th June 2008 Graham Morgan Geospatial Solution Architect Spatial Consultants Ltd. - A view of GIS from 30,000 Ft
- 2. 2 Welcome Plan 1. A little bit of background 2. What did GIS ever do for me? 3. What is it doing for my clients? 4. Where to next?
- 3. GIS Gypsy 3
- 4. Riding the Wave in Australia 4 National Wilderness Inventory
- 6. O Canada 6
- 7. How hard can it be? 7
- 8. Back to the New World 8
- 9. Pulling it Together in BC 9
- 10. 10 Setting up in the UK
- 11. 11 What does GIS Do? (from 30,000ft…) Consolidated Analysis, Reporting & Decision Support
- 12. 12 Geographic Information Facilities Management Work Order Management Inspection & Maintenance Facilities Design Permitting Address Master Financials Billing Citizen Information Crew Scheduling Dispatching Parcel Management Materials Management Project Management Asset Reporting What does GIS Do? Spatial Data Management Services
- 13. 13 Enterprise Spatial Data Capabilities • Model • Capture • Maintain with integrity • Store • Analyse • Visualise • Manage • Distribute
- 14. 14 FEA Geospatial Profile • Recognises that “Geospatial data and capabilities are integral to virtually all government activities” • Provides a geospatial perspective to the 5 FEA reference models (joining Security & Privacy and Records Management profiles) • Goal of geospatially-enabling business processes • Focus on interoperability • Simplistic view of Geospatial Service Components
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- 16. 16 Looking forward • Specialisation of geospatial capabilities (Geographic Information Services) • Increasing awareness of the value of geographic information • Increasing expectation of quality and performance • Adoption of spatial standards across the board • Rise of collaborative data maintenance • Geospatial services • Globalisation • Self awareness • Virtualised, distributed, unpredictable ... • It doesn’t matter – it’s all good.
- 17. 17 Thank You Graham Morgan gmorgan@spatialconsultants.com www.linkedin.comingrahammorgan 07717 539412 Did I leave time for questions?
Editor's Notes
- #2: MSC9127 Masters in GIS has been a passport to travel Set up spatial consultants last june after returning to the UK - GIS perspective from multiple countries, business domains - Work as an architect and look at big picture
- #3: Deck pulled together from Flickr... Geology in 1988 Ski season, met Eva Oil rigs in middle east – always liked to travel Edinburgh – beautiful city, great place to study and technology content GIS Course – required that I took a Fortran programming course Dissertation in information management and metadata – hacking ArcInfo executive Met Shawn callahan Spatial Consultants – information management consultancy – focus on integrating GIS capabilities into corporate IT services. (never found the ‘what is gis?’ question very easy)
- #4: Easiest way to produce map was with Google
- #5: 1991 – early days of GIS, easy visas. Value of contacts First GIS job FINDAR data catalogue – appearance of internet NWI Olympics, compete against a gov dept. AusLIG – rise of the machines
- #6: Via the Himalyas Swedish Royal Technical University Public speaking – edinburgh jitters – sunscreen: do something every day that scares you Open source – GRASS, Unix GIS principles to civil engineering masters students
- #7: Honeymoon interview ArcSTORM Forest ‘values’ – and evidence e.g. Moose poop Large area – coordinate system zones; datum change SDE acquired by ESRI Thomas Lee
- #8: Bristol water turned down Perot Simulation model, versioning Difficult to integrate Stuffy / constraining brit ex public service
- #9: Visa lead time Large GIS system integrator – gov and utilities, cosmopolitan Box cars full of money Conferences in style, San Diego, GITA, actors Portland North Dakota Kansas Acquisitions
- #10: Visa catch 22 David – FME Fly into victoria harbour Bouncing to Thames uk with Atos The canadian rockies at last ILRR ICF Geodatabase reluctance
- #11: Peter – from callahan fox
- #13: GIS is not a typically business application – it is not a standalone application It is an enabling technology set that supports business applications
- #14: GIS capabilities span much of the technical stack – Geographic Information Services National Strategy for Police Information Systems – based on TAFIM (Technical Architecture Framework for Information Management)
- #15: Architecture and Infrastructure Committee of the Federal CIO council and FGDC Jan 2006 Performance, business, data, service component, technical RMs GIS as an enterprise wide business component system
- #17: Change is opportunity
- #18: OGC ISO eGov