What can lessons from the last 30 years tell us about future mapping? - by Tom Timms, Star-Apic

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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 Birkbeck College, London

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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