[OSGeo-Edu] Fwd: [Gisusers] Notes from Jack Dangermond

[Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)]

Thanks for the overview Daniel.

Tyler

On 28-Apr-07, at 10:32 AM, Daniel Ames wrote:

> Dear OSGeo Discussers,
>
> ESRI's Jack Dangermond was in Utah last week and one of my colleagues
> attended his very interesting talk. It seems prudent for the OSGeo
> world to be well aware of where the proprietary GIS world is going, so
> here are a few key highlights from his talk (as recorded by my
> colleague Keith Weber at the ISU GIS Center):
>
>>    ArcGIS 9.3 (essentially wrapped patches) is due by end of  
>> calendar year
>>    2007.
>>
>>    ArcGIS 10 (major revision) is about 18 months out.  Will  
>> include spatial
>>    regression, startup and display enhancements, improved plot  
>> spool/queue,
>>    improved metadata templates.
>>
>>    ArcGIS Online provides a series of 2D map services and 3D globe
>>    services. Includes 1m NAIP nationwide, terrain maps from USGS,  
>> political
>>    base maps by NGS, streetmaps by TeleAtlas, other data.  These
>>    ready-to-use services can be accessed with any ArcGIS  
>> application, with
>>    ArcGIS Explorer, ArcMap, ArcGlobe, or ArcReader.  These are free
>>    services.
>>
>>    Geography is needed to turn around world issues.
>>
>>    The future is distributed data management, collaborative  
>> computing,
>>    application integration (think "GeoWeb")
>>
>>    Mobile smart clients using ADF (cell phone, pda, mobile laptop)  
>> will
>>    rely on replication/sychronization
>>
>>    Mashups will connect server + server + server for maps produced  
>> from
>>    varying server sources
>>
>>    ETL process (extract, transform, load) will help solve format,  
>> schema,
>>    semantics (ontology) problems when sharing data (this process  
>> helped
>>    solve the chaos of over 200 data contributors for Katrina  
>> relief work)
> -- 
> Daniel P. Ames, PhD, PE
> Dept of Geosciences
> Idaho State University
> amesdani at isu.edu
> www.hydromap.com
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Tyler Mitchell
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