Geography Reference
In-Depth Information
7. What is an SDI?
The alignment of various institutional GIS to support multiple GIS applica-
tions and users, some of whom may be unknown and undefined, but
important in the future.
8. What are important ethical issues for GIS?
Many questions: What do people do with data? How is the data collected?
How will locational privacy be protected? How to charge for geographic
information?
9. How are changes to technology impacting cost-recovery models of
GI pricing?
GI is becoming a resources for services, used as needed by users and
charged for according to use.
10. What is the range of employment opportunities?
Research, application development, and support.
Chapter Readings
Chrisman, N. (2006).
Charting the Unknown
. Redlands, CA: ESRI Press.
Curry, M. (1998).
Digital Places: Living with Geographic Information Technologies
. New
York: Routledge.
Fisher, P. F., & D. J. Unwin (Eds.). (2005).
Re-Presenting GIS
. Chichester, UK: Wiley.
Foresman, T. (Ed.). (1998).
The History of Geographic Information Systems: Perspectives
from the Pioneers
. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
Pickles, J. (2004).
A History of Spaces: Cartographic Reason, Mapping, and the Geocoded
World
. New York: Routledge.
Sheppard, E. (1993). Automated Geography: What Kind of Geography for What
Kind of Society?
The Professional Geographer
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(4), 457-460.
Web Resources
OpenStreetMap is a free editable map of the whole world:
http://openstreetmap.org/
The U.S. National Academy of Sciences, Mapping Sciences Committee, periodically
publishes reviews and perspectives. The latest is
Beyond Mapping
available online at:
http://darwin.nap.edu/execsumm_pdf/11687.pdf
The GISCI website provides a concise list of important principles as well as discussion
of ethical issues for GIS professionals. See
www.gisci.org
Typical for what many organizations do to have and maintain GIS, saving and scav-
enging:
www.dailymail.com/story/News/+/2006083137/Frustrated+county+officials+to+use+
local+funds+for+mapping/
Google Earth is now famous for its mapping and visualization capabilities. See
http://
earth.google.com