GIS Update - Travels of a GIS Gypsy
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Presented at Edinburgh GIS Update 2008, Newcastle 2010. Stories from a varied GIS career that has taken me all over the world.
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- 1. Passport to Travel GIS Update Edinburgh 6th June 2008 Graham Morgan Geospatial Solution Architect Spatial Consultants Ltd. - A view of GIS from 30,000 Ft
- 2. 2 Welcome Plan 1. A little bit of background 2. What did GIS ever do for me? 3. What is it doing for my clients? 4. Where to next?
- 3. GIS Gypsy 3
- 4. Riding the Wave in Australia 4 National Wilderness Inventory
- 6. O Canada 6
- 7. How hard can it be? 7
- 8. Back to the New World 8
- 9. Pulling it Together in BC 9
- 10. 10 Setting up in the UK
- 11. 11 What does GIS Do? (from 30,000ft…) Consolidated Analysis, Reporting & Decision Support
- 12. 12 Geographic Information Facilities Management Work Order Management Inspection & Maintenance Facilities Design Permitting Address Master Financials Billing Citizen Information Crew Scheduling Dispatching Parcel Management Materials Management Project Management Asset Reporting What does GIS Do? Spatial Data Management Services
- 13. 13 Enterprise Spatial Data Capabilities • Model • Capture • Maintain with integrity • Store • Analyse • Visualise • Manage • Distribute
- 14. 14 FEA Geospatial Profile • Recognises that “Geospatial data and capabilities are integral to virtually all government activities” • Provides a geospatial perspective to the 5 FEA reference models (joining Security & Privacy and Records Management profiles) • Goal of geospatially-enabling business processes • Focus on interoperability • Simplistic view of Geospatial Service Components
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- 16. 16 Looking forward • Specialisation of geospatial capabilities (Geographic Information Services) • Increasing awareness of the value of geographic information • Increasing expectation of quality and performance • Adoption of spatial standards across the board • Rise of collaborative data maintenance • Geospatial services • Globalisation • Self awareness • Virtualised, distributed, unpredictable ... • It doesn’t matter – it’s all good.
- 17. 17 Thank You Graham Morgan gmorgan@spatialconsultants.com www.linkedin.comingrahammorgan 07717 539412 Did I leave time for questions?
Editor's Notes
- MSC9127 Masters in GIS has been a passport to travel Set up spatial consultants last june after returning to the UK - GIS perspective from multiple countries, business domains - Work as an architect and look at big picture
- Deck pulled together from Flickr... Geology in 1988 Ski season, met Eva Oil rigs in middle east – always liked to travel Edinburgh – beautiful city, great place to study and technology content GIS Course – required that I took a Fortran programming course Dissertation in information management and metadata – hacking ArcInfo executive Met Shawn callahan Spatial Consultants – information management consultancy – focus on integrating GIS capabilities into corporate IT services. (never found the ‘what is gis?’ question very easy)
- Easiest way to produce map was with Google
- 1991 – early days of GIS, easy visas. Value of contacts First GIS job FINDAR data catalogue – appearance of internet NWI Olympics, compete against a gov dept. AusLIG – rise of the machines
- Via the Himalyas Swedish Royal Technical University Public speaking – edinburgh jitters – sunscreen: do something every day that scares you Open source – GRASS, Unix GIS principles to civil engineering masters students
- Honeymoon interview ArcSTORM Forest ‘values’ – and evidence e.g. Moose poop Large area – coordinate system zones; datum change SDE acquired by ESRI Thomas Lee
- Bristol water turned down Perot Simulation model, versioning Difficult to integrate Stuffy / constraining brit ex public service
- Visa lead time Large GIS system integrator – gov and utilities, cosmopolitan Box cars full of money Conferences in style, San Diego, GITA, actors Portland North Dakota Kansas Acquisitions
- Visa catch 22 David – FME Fly into victoria harbour Bouncing to Thames uk with Atos The canadian rockies at last ILRR ICF Geodatabase reluctance
- Peter – from callahan fox
- GIS is not a typically business application – it is not a standalone application It is an enabling technology set that supports business applications
- GIS capabilities span much of the technical stack – Geographic Information Services National Strategy for Police Information Systems – based on TAFIM (Technical Architecture Framework for Information Management)
- Architecture and Infrastructure Committee of the Federal CIO council and FGDC Jan 2006 Performance, business, data, service component, technical RMs GIS as an enterprise wide business component system
- Change is opportunity
- OGC ISO eGov