Geodata for all is the Growing Reality

今年的英国ESRI会议吸引了一个惊人的2500名与会者，从2014年起了一千名。一如既往，这是一个令人难以置信的忙碌的一天，很多会议，可以试图掩盖。我希望我们设法通过包括鹿特丹港，伦敦运输，新的爱尔兰水当局和Sellafield的几个重要项目来传达活动的味道（开始于第26页）。此外，它还有机会在开发中看到一些聪明的应用程序，并暂停了解从手机收集的数据可能拥有的影响（参见Robin Waters文章在地图，智能手机和导航技能下降）。

捕获图像映射和GIS从来没有en easier or cheaper. There are several companies in the UK and Europe who will sell you the area you want, although it may not be as up to date as you would like. Tasking a UAV to help with the updating may be the solution but there are other technologies available as Tom Whittome of Caledonian Air Surveys explains in his article advocating medium format photography (see page 10). This has been an overlooked technology, positioned midway in cost between UAVs (quick, cheap but limited range and coverage) and high-resolution aerial survey (also quick but expensive and for some tasks may be overkill).

Big Data is set to provide GIS analysts with an exponential increase in available data. One source will come as anonymised mobile phone tracking, timing and location. But there are risks, argues Nicholas Regnaud, as the so-called neo-cartographers get to grips with mapping (page 18). Some will be tempted by open source software but they also need to understand how both scale and generalisation works. As you drill down so you want more data. National mapping agencies are beginning to recognise the growing demand for better background mapping that can be easily manipulated. The good news is that the traditional skills of the cartographer are likely to remain in demand.

在她的常规列Adena Schutzberg评论（第09页）关于我们部门的名称和经常重塑，在收购和兼并之后。这种现象不是美国独一无二的。我们已经对1spatial感到满意，曾经没有标题与我一起传达过大关（Laserscan从未做过太多激光扫描）。我又忘记了诺基基亚已经收购了NavTech，直到我在Esri的2015年英国会议上遇到了一家新公司。Snappy和简单，'这里'现在是踏资克曾经是什么名字。除非在我们在其他部门所见，否则所有这一切都是无害的。

Continuing our open source reporting, Suchith Anand of Geo4All explains the philosophy behind the global partnership Open Source Geospatial Laboratories (motto, ‘Geo for all’). It’s all about spreading geospatial knowledge (page 14). If you’re not already using open source software you’re probably missing out on major emerging series of technologies that can save time and money; and possibly release you from the clutches of the big software providers and their annual licence fees.

在这个问题中的另外两个文章我们幸运的是，为您带来的报告是一份关于年度地球地理位置奖项日的报告，始终是使用地址数据的最佳做法的绝佳机会。Finally, the Leicester University Geodata for all event (page 24) provided many of those ‘light bulb’ moments for attending local solicitors, marketers, estate agents and even tv programme makers as they began to realise the overarching significance of geospatial data in today’s economy.

本文于2015年6月在GIS专业发布