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What Is the Connection of GIS to Sustainability?
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on Friday November 30, @04:18PM
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from the everything-is-connected dept.
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This week, Vector One and Spatial Sustain discuss what is the connection of GIS to sustainability. From V1: "GIS are particularly useful for integrating data about all of these features, and comparing them to help us understand what is around us. But that is not enough. A GIS cannot develop the strategy or plan on where we need to go sustainability wise, and they certainly cannot decide who must do what to make the hard decisions necessary to set us on the correct course. These decisions will become easier with higher quality and more accurate information." From SS: "It’s time to quantify our actions and our impacts on a global scale. GIS provides the toolsets and framework for organizing multi-disciplinary information at all scales. GIS also provides the collaborative framework for data collection and analysis in order to quantify any remediary actions." Want a demonstration? APB links to an article on GIS analysis to determine carbon reserves in Indian soils.
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Vector One provides another great opinion on sustainable development, indicators and geospatial technologies. From the blog: "I think viewing the whole world through a Webmap and the focus on webmaps as the sole technology for representing how we live needs a major updating. I wonder if our focus today is too oriented toward ‘making technology connect - interoperably’, when it might be better to understand the factors connecting sustainabile development, and representing them more fully and accurately."
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