The first map (Figure 1) shows the amount of research done in different fields. Medicine and Molecular & Cell Biology is very present in this map. But also the Geosciences area is not so small. Computer Science and Geosciences together are the foundation of GIS.
Figure 1: (Click on the map to enlarge)
If we also consider other sciences like Operations Research we are dealing with Spatial Decision Support Systems (SDSS). For example if we combine Geosciences with Mathematics we are taking about Geocomputation. And there a lot of other disciplines which can be compined with Geosciences.
Figure 2: André Skupin, In Terms of Geography, 2005
This map (Figure 2) is a visualization derived from more than 22,000 abstracts submitted to the Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers during a ten-year period from 1993 to 2002. The methodology is centered around the representation of each document as an n-dimensional vector of terms. These vectors are used to construct a neural network model of the geographic knowledge domain using a Self-Organizing Map (SOM). The neural network model is then transformed into two types of information: (1) a landscape in which elevation indicates the degree to which a single, focused topic is addressed; and (2) multilevel text labels associated with regions in the visualization. The final rendering was executed in standard geographic information systems (GIS) software.
[via SciMaps.org]
Where? This is such a basic and fundamental questions that many or almost any science is related to this question. And of course it is the base to the science of geography.
Space is what GIS is all about, and business knows the critical importance of the three Ls: location, location, location. (Michael F. Goodchild, UCSB)
I think with this sentence Goodchild wants to emphasis on the importance of location.
Location based Services are about Location!
We are in the midst of an information revolution, in which an endless array of data can be combined and manipulated in ways that tells us amazing things about our surroundings relevant to time, where we are, and what we want most. Traffic, points of interests, satellite imagery, and a variety of user-generated content are being used to create compelling new location-based solutions.
In a recent consumer survey, market research firm C.J. Driscoll & Associates found that one third of U.S. cellular subscribers were strongly interested in location-based mobile applications, including friend and business finder services. On the enterprise side, researcher In-Stat predicts a doubling of workforce LBS end users to more than a million by 2010.
Some interesting questions…
- Is there also LBS 1.0 and LBS 2.0 as we know this term in the web?
- When is the prediced hype for LBSs comming or will it come?
- What makes the map more than just another widget and how it can facilitate innovation in services?
- (How) will the convergence of mobile technology and the demand for location-awareness affect consumers and the service and device choices they make?
[where 2.0, UCSB]
Written and submitted from Home, using my 802.11g WiFi network.
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