What is special about Geospatial?

An Excerpt:

The world has currently a lots of porblems to solve. Therefore GIS Specialists have a lot to do. Some examples are:

• growing population
• global warming and related consequences
• loss of biodiversity in social conflicts
• resource shortages
• aging infrastructure
• …

What is what we can do collectively?

Some topics: data and model sharing, desktop systems, geoweb, fusion of desktop and web GIS, ArcGIS 9.3, ArcGIS Server

listen to full talk.

[via Jack Dangermond, 2008 ESRI Federal User Conference Plenary]

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