Why Mapdex?
Categories: Mapdex Overview
So why is a site like Mapdex important? Why do Geographers, planners, scientists, & the general public care if there is an easy way to find spatial data over the Internet? I think the following quote is very insightful:
--Forward by Michael Goodchild in Internet GIS by Peng and Tsou 2003
There is an enormous amount of publicly available geospatial data. The trick is finding it.
Cheers,
Jeremy
"Early GIS was impeded by the lack of good algorithms and powerful computers to analyze data and by the difficulties associated with digitizing, which were such that 80% or more of a project’s resources were often consumed in the task of converting paper records to digital databases. Today, a new source of frustration has emerged. Despite all of the on-line digital data now available and the vastly increased power of GIS, it is still common to spend 80% or more of a project’s resources on searching, discovering, retrieving, and reformatting data"
--Forward by Michael Goodchild in Internet GIS by Peng and Tsou 2003
There is an enormous amount of publicly available geospatial data. The trick is finding it.
Cheers,
Jeremy
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