Advancing Geographic Information Science

Advancing Geographic Information Science: the past and next twenty years

Advancing Geographic Information Science: the past and next twenty yearsLast summer (2015) marked the 25th anniversary of first International Early Career Scholars Summer Institute in Geographic Information. In celebration of the success of those institutes, scholars were invited to submit papers that would become part of a new 30 chapter digital e-book published by the GSDI Association Press.

Advancing Geographic Information Science, edited by H. Onsrud and W. Kuhn is the result of several invited and solicited submissions on Advancing Geographic Information Science. The main theme ‘Past and Next Twenty Years’ was chosen to help review the research challenges experienced over the past twenty years while discussing  some of challenges that will emerge during the next twenty.

Some of the technical influences on GIScience described in the book include databases, open source software, spatial data, GPS, web mapping services, mobile computing, crowdsourced data, and many other GIS related topics.

If you are concerned about data and many of the other issues surrounding GIS in the geospatial community, including ‘where the field has been‘ and ‘where the field is headed‘, then downloading and reading this book will be well worth your time. It can be ordered in print or downloaded digitally for free

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