The document discusses how mapping has changed over the past 30 years from 1983 to 2013. It outlines that communications (mobile phones, internet), the importance of location data, and the shift from no data to big data have driven significant changes. Technology advances, government policies around open data and standards, and major companies like Google, Apple, and Oracle becoming involved in mapping have also contributed to changes. Lessons learned include the enduring nature of good software, the central role of data access and management, and the need for easy to use and visually appealing map presentations.

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What can lessons from the last 30
years tell us about future
mapping?
Tom Timms, Director
STAR-APIC UK

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Outline
Introductions
Life 30 years ago
Mapping 30 years ago
What has changed ?
What has driven change ?
Who has been successful ?
Lessons for the future

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1963 – 2013 CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF THE BRITISH CARTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY1983 Liege, Belgium

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1983
Petrol 37.6p / litre
Start of TCP/IP & Internet ?

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1983
Pos. Singles, 3rd September 1983 top selling albums
1 RED RED WINE
UB40
Thriller
Michael Jackson
2 GIVE IT UP
KC AND THE SUNSHINE BAND
No Parlez
Paul Young
3 GOLD
SPANDAU BALLET
Colour By Numbers
Culture Club
4 WINGS OF A DOVE
MADNESS
Let's Dance ,
David Bowie
5 I'M STILL STANDING
ELTON JOHN
Fantastic ,
Wham!

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1983
First Division
P W D L F A GD Pts
1 Liverpool 42 24 10 8 87 37 50 82
2 Watford 42 22 5 15 74 57 17 71
3 Manchester United 42 19 13 10 56 38 18 70
4 Tottenham Hotspur 42 20 9 13 65 50 15 69
6 Aston Villa 42 21 5 16 62 50 12 68
8 West Ham United 42 20 4 18 68 62 6 64
9 Ipswich Town 42 15 13 14 64 50 14 58
10 Arsenal 42 16 10 16 58 56 2 58
17 Birmingham City 42 12 14 16 40 55 −15 50
20 Manchester City 42 13 8 21 47 70 −23 47
21 Swansea City 42 10 11 21 51 69 −18 41
22 Brighton & Hove Albion 42 9 13 20 38 68 −30 40
Second Division
P W D L F A GD Pts
1 Queens Park Rangers 42 26 7 9 77 36 41 85
2 Wolverhampton Wanderers 42 20 15 7 68 44 24 75
3 Leicester City 42 20 10 12 72 44 28 70
6 Sheffield Wednesday 42 16 15 11 60 47 13 63
12 Cambridge United 42 13 12 17 42 60 −18 51
18 Chelsea 42 11 14 17 51 61 −10 47
Third Division
1 Portsmouth 46 27 10 9 74 41 33 91
11 Sheffield United 46 19 7 20 62 64 −2 64
Wisden Cricketers of the year 1983
Imran Khan Trevor Jesty Alvin Kallicharran Kapil Dev Malcolm Marshall

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1983

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Polilog
France
Belgium

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1963 – 2013 CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF THE BRITISH CARTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY1983 Laser-Scan (now 1Spatial)

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What’s changed ?
Communications
– Mobile phones, internet …
Location is important
– Google, Apple, Oracle, Nokia …
Data
– From no data to Big Data
– From private to public data

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Communications – 2013
UK (Ofcom)
– 21m home broadband connections
– 82.7m mobile phone connections
– 94% adults use/own a mobile phone

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What’s driven change - 1
Technology/platform
• Mainframes
• Mini computers (VAX, PDP ..)
• Workstations (SUN, IBM, DEC …)
• Personal computers (Windows)
• Tablets & Smartphones (iOS, Android)
• Web/Cloud (?)

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What’s driven change - 2
Government
–National Mapping Agencies
• Data capture programs
–INSPIRE
–OpenData
–Standards – OGC

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$$$$What’s driven change - 3
Major players
–Database vendors (Oracle, MS)
–Google (Earth / Maps)
–Apple, Nokia, …

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$$$$What’s driven change - 4
Internet
– Freely available mapping
– Crowd sourcing (OSM)
– Location sharing

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Who has been successful ?
Google (1998)
Apple (1976)
Microsoft (1975)
Oracle (1977)
ESRI (1969), Intergraph (1969)
Autodesk (1982), MapInfo (1986) …

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UK companies
1Spatial (Laser-Scan) (1969)
Envitia (1988)
Smallworld / GE (1989)
Cadcorp (1991)
Snowflake (2001)
Specialist
– Maplex, Autoroute, ….

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Lessons learned ?
plus ça change, plus c'est la
même chose

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Lessons – business
US advantages
International influence of UK (& Europe)

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Software
Good (productive) software endures
Simplicity & ease of use essential
From monolithic programs to apps
Open source & commercial

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It’s all about data
From no data & data capture
To data management
Now data distribution
Make it easy
Presentation critical = Cartography

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From
‘Station de Travail Architecture’
To
Geospatial software to manage Land
Property & Infrastructure
• Elyx Suite (GIS)
• Mercator (Cartographic Production)
• Now part of

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Contact details
tom.timms@star-apic.co.uk
@TomTheMap
www.star-apic.co.uk
www.1spatial.com