Geography and Geographic Informations Systems

Geography and Geographic Information Systems (GIS): New Realities of Canada as An Emerging Information Society Dr. Barry Wellar, Professor (ret.), University of Ottawa, and Media Program Director Geography Awareness Week Canadian Association of Geographers Materials for a presentation at GIS Day 2006 University of Ottawa Department of Geography and Environmental Studies University of Ottawa November 15, 2006 University Centre

Images from the Doomsday Map Project: Ecological Disaster and Local Response

Overexploitation risks survival of planet?

Rainforests: Their destruction a worldwide problem

Oil’s black death takes terrible toll

Coastal waters being used as toxic dump

Makings of ‘The Doomsday Map’? Geography and Geographic Information Systems (GIS): New Realities of Canada as An Emerging Information Society

Makings of ‘The Doomsday Map’?

100,000 eastern lakes hurt by acid rain

Cocktail of toxins threatens lake

More PCB-laced oil spills in river feared

It’s not cool to kill the ozone

A warning on warming

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Images from the Doomsday Map Project: Ecological Disaster and Local Response

1989 one of the hottest years

A warning on warming

Here’s a crash course on the Greenhouse effect

Greenhouse effect starts to make Washington sweat

British cities could drown

US drought becoming a threat to our water

Makings of ‘The Doomsday Map’? Geography and Geographic Information Systems (GIS): New Realities of Canada as An Emerging Information Society

Images from the Doomsday Map Project: Ecological Disaster and Local Response Makings of ‘The Doomsday Map’?

Dirty air threatens one billion

Metro choking on auto fumes hearings warned

Mexico City population now ‘irreversible’

Air pollution killing Europeans secret report says

Geography and Geographic Information Systems (GIS): New Realities of Canada as An Emerging Information Society

Third world becomes toxic dumping ground

State looking for ‘candidates’ to store toxics

Garbage: Viable disposal plan an elusive

goal after 20 years

Destroying a habitat: a threat to Hawaii

Saving the wetlands

A shrinking nesting ground

The death of open spaces

A shrinking parkway

Open space plan called skimpy

Urban sprawl: Many cities fight back

Plaza site permits let dozers roll

Fighting the concrete jungle

Choking on success

Auto-maker: don’t let cars destroy our cities

Neighbours fight towering development

New Jersey’s folly could teach us a lesson

LA pays price for poor planning

City pan called recipe for disaster

Group’s pan Ottawa’s new official plan

Battle looms over future of downtown

Development in state carefully planned

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Images from the Doomsday Map Project: Ecological Disaster and Local Response The Geographer’s Lament With too many wrong things In too many wrong places, We have just about ________ All our life support spaces Geography and Geographic Information Systems (GIS): New Realities of Canada as An Emerging Information Society

Geography and Geographic Information Systems: Combining to Create a Spatially-Aware Information Society Geography and Geographic Information Systems (GIS): New Realities of Canada as An Emerging Information Society

Figure 1. Geography, the Media, and the Pursuit and Application of Data, Information and Knowledge to Create a Spatially-Aware Information Society (1): Components Geography and Geographic Information Systems (GIS): New Realities of Canada as An Emerging Information Society

Figure 2. Geography, the Media, and the Pursuit and Application of Data, Information and Knowledge to Create a Spatially-Aware Information Society (2): Connections Geography and Geographic Information Systems (GIS): New Realities of Canada as An Emerging Information Society

Figure 3. Geography, the Media, and the Pursuit and Application of Data, Information and Knowledge to Create a Spatially-Aware Information Society (3): The Typology of Stories Geography and Geographic Information Systems (GIS): New Realities of Canada as An Emerging Information Society

Table 1. Terms and Concepts Which Underlie the Work of the Geographic Community, and Indicate the Potential for Creating A Spatially-Aware Information Society Concentric Connect (ion/ivity) Contiguous Continent(al) Conurbation Coordinates Core Correlation Countryside Density Diffusion Dimension Disperse(ion) Distance Distribution Edge Effect Elevation Encroach(ment) Environment Everywhere Extrusion Far Field Fjord Flow(s) Form Fringe Function(al/ity) Geocode Geodetic Geofactor Geographic Geomatic Geometric Geopolitical Georeference Geospatial GIS/GISSc Global(ization) Grid Gridlock Habitat Hinterland Interaction Intersection Intrusion Island Isolate(ion) Land Landscape Latitude Line Link Locality Location Local(ization) Longitude Map Margin(al) Meridian Migration Morphology Movement Nation(al/ization) Near(ness) Neighbor Network NIMBY Node Nowhere Object Orientation Origin Overlay Parcel Partition Path Pattern Pedshed Perimeter Periphery Place Plain Plane Point Pole(ar/ity) Polygon(al) Proximity Quadrangle Quadrant Region Relation(ship) Right-of-way Route Rural Scale Segregate(ion) Shape Shed Site Situation Slope Somewhere Space Spatial Sphere Sprawl Spread Strip Structure Surface System Territory Topographic Topology(ic) Urban(ex/sub) Vector Walkshed Ward Warren Watershed Where YIMBY Zone Accessible (ity) Adjacent(cy) Agglomerate (ion) Aggregate(ion) Along(side) Amalgamate(ion) Anywhere Arc Area(polygon) Around Association Block Border Boundary Buffer Cause(al/ity) Center Centrality Circle Close(ness) Clump Cluster Coastal Commutershed Concentrate(ion) Geography and Geographic Information Systems (GIS): New Realities of Canada as An Emerging Information Society

Table 2. Ten of the Most Critical Geographic Terms and Concepts Underlying GIS Applications that Advance Canada as a Spatially-Aware Information Society Geography and Geographic Information Systems (GIS): New Realities of Canada as An Emerging Information Society Interaction Linkage Pattern Relationship System Accessibility Causality Connection Density Functionality

Figure 4. The Data-Information-Knowledge Transform Process: Simple Model Geography and Geographic Information Systems (GIS): New Realities of Canada as An Emerging Information Society

How Are Geographers and the GIS Community Helping Canada to Advance as a Spatially-Aware Information Society? Geography and Geographic Information Systems (GIS): New Realities of Canada as An Emerging Information Society

http://www.cag-acg.ca/en/ www.gisday.com www.geomatics.uottawa.ca/gisday http://www.ccge.org/ccge/english/Newsletter/symposium_june 2005.asp Check Out the Following Sources References For information about the sources used for this presentation contact B. Wellar at [email_address] Geography and Geographic Information Systems (GIS): New Realities of Canada as An Emerging Information Society