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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?
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Enterprise Spatial Data Capabilities
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Model
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Capture
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Maintain with integrity
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Store
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Analyse
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Visualise
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Manage
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Distribute
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FEA Geospatial Profile
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Recognises that “Geospatial data and capabilities are integral to
virtually all government activities”
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Provides a geospatial perspective to the 5 FEA reference models
(joining Security & Privacy and Records Management profiles)
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Goal of geospatially-enabling business processes
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Focus on interoperability
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Simplistic view of Geospatial Service Components
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Looking forward
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Specialisation of geospatial capabilities (Geographic Information Services)
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Increasing awareness of the value of geographic information
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Increasing expectation of quality and performance
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Adoption of spatial standards across the board
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Rise of collaborative data maintenance
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Geospatial services
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Globalisation
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Self awareness
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Virtualised, distributed, unpredictable ...
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It doesn’t matter – it’s all good.
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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
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)
Easiest way to produce map was with Google
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
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
Honeymoon interview
ArcSTORM
Forest ‘values’ – and evidence e.g. Moose poop
Large area – coordinate system zones; datum change
SDE acquired by ESRI
Thomas Lee
Bristol water turned down
Perot
Simulation model, versioning
Difficult to integrate
Stuffy / constraining brit ex public service
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
Visa catch 22
David – FME
Fly into victoria harbour
Bouncing to Thames uk with Atos
The canadian rockies at last
ILRR
ICF
Geodatabase reluctance
Peter – from callahan fox
GIS is not a typically business application – it is not a standalone application
It is an enabling technology set that supports business applications
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)
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