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Landscape and challenges of geospatial information in 2012On Location: organising and using geospatial information29th March 2012

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Agenda:Models & Maps, Data & Knowledge

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• Geometry and Cartography• Data deluge• Rules based processing• Knowledge

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Haggett (1965)

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Geometry not only offers the opportunity of welding data into a new partnership, but revives the role of cartography.

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Models &…

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Paradigms

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4 feet

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Inches

 

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Maps

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Location…a Different Paradigm

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Data

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Data Volumes: A geographic analogy – 1920…

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2010

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First Steps Towards a European Knowledge Economy

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Rules Based Processing in Geographical Information

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‘Formal Languages for Expressing Spatial Data Constraints and Implications for Reporting of Quality Metadata.’ Paul Watson.Chapter 24. Quality Aspects in Spatial Data Mining (Pages 329-344) Edited by Alfred Stein , Wenzhong Shi , and Wietske Bijker CRC Press 2009 Print ISBN: 978-1-4200-6926-6 eBook ISBN: 978-1-4200-6927-3On line at:http://www.isprs.org/proceedings/XXXVI/2-C43/www.itc.nl/issdq2007/proceedings/Session%205%20Dissemination%20and%20Fitness%20for%20Use/paper%20Paul_Watson%5B1%5D.pdf

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Knowledge

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Quantifying where data is poor or missing

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Summary

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“As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information." Benjamin Disraeli