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The things you’ve always wanted to know about GIS… but never dared to ask! Thierry Gregorius Principal Strategic Consultant
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The things you’ve always wanted to know about GIS… but never dared to ask!Thierry GregoriusPrincipal Strategic Consultant
Presentation Outline & Biography
Wordle created from Wikipedia pages for Energy, Petroleum, Natural Gas,Environmental Science, Real Estate, Conveyancing, Flood Insurance,
GIS, Geodesy, Geomatics.
Wikipedia.org
Gru’s cunning plan to steal the moon
youtube.com
“I fly to the moon, I shrink the moon, I grab the moon.”
“I make the map, I save the map, I share the map.”
ArcGIS.com
Image of Gru by Universal Pictures / Illumination Entertainment
Just one thing…
VisualNews.com
geosoft.com
geek-and-poke.com
Traditional data management
BrandonRossen.com
• Data stores neatly built from the ground up• Authoritative, accessible• Accurate, comprehensive?• Time-consuming to build, time-saving to use?
Lego.com
Traditional data management
Corporate Enterprise GIS Stack
IT Dept >Vendor >GIS Team >
GIS User >
Jonathan Harford on Flickr (Creative Commons)
All those $$$ to enable this?
Resources & Engineering Skills Alliance on flickr.com
…and now paste the map into Powerpoint.
Done!
Page 13
“GIS is a computer system capable of holding and using data describing places on the earth's surface.“
eurleif on flickr.com (Creative Commons)
ESRI, 1995
Private Eye, 2001
Sure, the technologyhas changed but…
The mobile revolution
(2001)
…what about people?
wadleighlibrary.org
hbr.org
designmind.frogdesign.com
Lessons from the world of Design & Art
Helen Doodle via postercheckout.com
Design Thinking is human-centred>> work with people’s natural inclinations, not against
seethroughmaps.wordpress.com (via stamen.com)
Cartographic Design Award: 1st prizeFOSS4G conference 2013
Map by Anna Butler, Wellingtons Travel
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/09/foss4g-map-contest/#slideid-255991
Cartographic Design Award: 1st prizeFOSS4G conference 2013
Map by Anna Butler, Wellingtons Travel
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/09/foss4g-map-contest/#slideid-255991
…it’s drawn by hand!
Real users do this
larskflem on flickr.com (Creative Commons)
How people naturally work
safe.com
Lessons from the world of Data Science
Claudia PerlichData Scientist
Quote from tech.gilt.com
“Clean data is dead.”
Ever heard this?
Page 24
“Dear Internet, please clean up your pages so we can search them.”
GIS is a people system
1. People2. Data3. Technology
not
Technology working for the people,not people working for the technology.
Opportunity: Art and Science converging– for the first time since the Renaissance
A new wave of data visualisations– mapping just one representation of many.
NASA Perpetual Ocean
dml.wikis.bgc.bard.edu
The web browser becomes the platform
RedMonk via reddit.com
In a world of JavaScript, clouds and powerful browsers, do we still need this?
10 types ofmapmakers…(not even including subsurface apps)
By the author(georeferenced.wordpress.com)
People are more empowered than ever
Despicable Me by Universal Pictures / Illumination Entertainment
But of course, people also make mistakes…
Author private collection
Global Risks
Likelihood
Impact
AsteroidsClimate change
Inequality
Pandemics
Terrorism
Cyper attacks
Corruption
Financecrash
Foodshortage
Spacejunk
Evil map projections
Blowouts
MispositioningSolarstorms
Loosely adapted from Global Risks 8th Edition, World Economic Forum 2013
berniedup on flickr.com (Creative Commons)
So, what to do?
More focus on the cakenot just the icing
Cupcake Murder Aftermath on flickr.com (Creative Commons)
Data
GIS
Channel4.com
TheAtlantic.com
EdParsons.com
GIS does not always need a map interface…
youtube.com
We need new skills
More E&P specific
knowledge, skills &
workflows
Data science,
‘hacking’ &
visualisation
Carto, design, art,
story telling
Versatility, flexibility e.g. DevOps conceptLifelong learning
We need new tools
Work with
messy dataFlexible data models
Automation (AI,
machine learning?)Data discovery &
access (see Google)
Fast & simple mapping
Xavier de Jauréguiberry on flickr.com (Creative Commons)
Exprodat GIS Benchmarking Club:
12+ E&P companies…
We need to keep things in perspective
bulliver on flickr.com (Creative Commons)
Benchmarking figures by Exprodat
• Accept realities: Data is still a mess, always will be
• We need more• skills (data science & hacking)• flexible tools (data mining, manipulation)• automation (AI, machine learning)• simple mapping
We need to enable people…to be more like people
horrigons on flickr.com (Creative Commons)
P.S. And I did not use the term ‘big data’
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