GISDay meeting at the ARCA Consortium
The ARCA Consortium, the business incubator of the University of Palermo, on occasion of the 2009 GISDay, is organizing a meeting on Geographic Information Systems, the province of no one discipline. Geography escapes from its boundaries and invades every-day life.
This meeting is aimed at appraising some evolutionary trends of the GIS applications that are becoming more and more familiar, as everyday tools.
Large part of these changes are due to the diffusion of both the internet and mobile telephony as well as handheld GPS, consumer tools that imply a continuous use of geo-localization techniques.
Also among the most informed GIS users and developers, a significant part of the interesting novelties is not confined to the creation of new analytical tools, but is often connected to the use of the existing ones. These innovations involve the methodological finalization of data distribution and representation, as well as the merging of web services for the creation of original products.
These novelties are also largely spread in data collecting, where practices like social-mapping have already resulted in a critical mass of high quality data. These facts are relevant also from a technical standpoint, implying base data infrastructures and standard application.
Geospatial technology operators today understand that data availability (and documentation) and the use of interoperable standards is critical, being a fundamental premise to a correct GIS application in those domains where any information with a geographic component is analyzed.
GIS applications today are well beyond the traditional geography, and one of the main challenges is to successfully use instruments and representation paradigms typical of professional web applications.
In the coming ARCA meeting we intend to analyze the above issues presenting a panorama of the GIS use in various applications contexts, thanks to the participation of users with different but complementary professional experiences.
This meeting is aimed at appraising some evolutionary trends of the GIS applications that are becoming more and more familiar, as everyday tools.
Large part of these changes are due to the diffusion of both the internet and mobile telephony as well as handheld GPS, consumer tools that imply a continuous use of geo-localization techniques.
Also among the most informed GIS users and developers, a significant part of the interesting novelties is not confined to the creation of new analytical tools, but is often connected to the use of the existing ones. These innovations involve the methodological finalization of data distribution and representation, as well as the merging of web services for the creation of original products.
These novelties are also largely spread in data collecting, where practices like social-mapping have already resulted in a critical mass of high quality data. These facts are relevant also from a technical standpoint, implying base data infrastructures and standard application.
Geospatial technology operators today understand that data availability (and documentation) and the use of interoperable standards is critical, being a fundamental premise to a correct GIS application in those domains where any information with a geographic component is analyzed.
GIS applications today are well beyond the traditional geography, and one of the main challenges is to successfully use instruments and representation paradigms typical of professional web applications.
In the coming ARCA meeting we intend to analyze the above issues presenting a panorama of the GIS use in various applications contexts, thanks to the participation of users with different but complementary professional experiences.