Under names like “neogeography”, “volunteered geographic
information”, “wikimapping”, and “GIS 2.0,” innovations and new applications
for the use of online geospatial technologies and crowd-sourced spatial data continue
their expansion. These new data and technologies are used in things like emergency
response, public deliberation in spatial decision-making, participatory
planning, and citizen science. GIScience users are taking these web-based
technologies and data and are beginning to integrate and blend them into their
conventional GIS software and techniques.
This integration of GIScience with the changing sociopolitical
construction of spatial data caused by these new online geospatial technologies
makes you begin to question just what exactly is a “geographic information
system,” and how we should make use of these new technologies in this
increasingly more connected world.
GIS: emerging research on the societal implications of the
geospatial web
Sarah Elwood
Department of Geography, University of Washington
Progress in Human Geography 34(3) (2010) pp. 349–357
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