Future In GIS

GIS Education

  • Has not been standardized, but has produced a great variety of learning environments and teaching materials.
  • NCGIA Core Curricula

A GIS is already more than a System

What in the world is a "GIS"?

  • Item on the Internet's comp.infosystems.gis FAQ.

Geographic(al) Information System:

  1. A set of computer tools for analyzing spatial data:
  2. A special case of an information system designed
    for spatial data:
  3. An approach to the scientific analysis and use of spatial data:
  4. A multibillion dollar business.

GIS is an Approach to Science

"the generic issues that surround the use of GIS technology, impede its successful implementation, or emerge from an understanding of its potential capabilities."

(Goodchild, 1992)
Geographic Information Science is research both on and with GIS.

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