Multidimensional Geographic Information Science (Geographic Information Systems Workshop)

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Summary: Vast New Applications
Review: With the incipient rise of the mobile web, this book describes potentially vast new applications for Geographic Information Systems. New cellphones now often have GIS locator capability builtin. Plus, we can easily imagine other mobile devices like laptops, PDAs and vehicles having GIS by default. Combine this with an ever-increasing pervasive web, as suggested by WiFi and next generation WiFi, and you can see the need for ever more GIS databases. Where these would have street information, for example.

One future direction is in developing innovative ways to query the GIS data, and to hook it up to other databases, like weather maps.

Thus far, GIS has existed for what will one day be seen as small, specialised applications, like oceanside and mining activities. In reality, the much larger markets exist in urban areas, where most people are. By checking out this book, you can get a feel for how these new applications might be developed.