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Dr.
Berry has been involved with GIS and geospatial technologies for over four
decades. He will be sharing his thoughts on the past, present, and future of
this ever-evolving field. All are
welcome; open to the public.
The
presentation will take place in DU’s Boettcher Center Auditorium 101,
2050 E. Iliff Avenue, Denver, Colorado. A reception will follow the presentation in
the Boettcher West Building, Room 23.
Eye-Witness to GIS’s 40 year Evolution/Revolution
Thursday,
October 2, 2014, 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. (Handout with
online references; PowerPoint with
presentation notes…in
preparation)
Joe Berry has
been involved in geospatial technology for over forty years— as an educator,
software developer, consultant and entrepreneur. The
presentation relates this experience that began in the very, very early years (late 1960s)
through the present …sort of an “eye-witness view” of the GIS
evolution/revolution over the past four decades resulting in a radical change
of “what a map is (and isn’t)” that was brought on by the digital map and
mapped data analysis/modeling—definitely not your grandfather’s
map.
Where
Do We Go from Here?— short paper (4 pages)
supporting this presentation
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Supporting Online/Hardcopy Book Series
Beyond Mapping: Compilation of 25 Years of
Essays and Activities about GIS
The Beyond
Mapping Compilation Series of
the 25-year run of the “Beyond Mapping” column by Dr. Joseph K.
Berry in GeoWorld is finally
“soup.” The nearly 1000 pages and more than 750 figures in the Series provide
a comprehensive and longitudinal perspective of the underlying concepts,
considerations, issues and evolutionary development of modern geotechnology,
including remote sensing, GIS, and GPS.
The Series is
organized into four online books (with hard copy options), each containing
an Introduction, Ten Topics, Epilogue, and Further
Readings with links to online support materials including additional
online readings, color graphics files, instructor materials, and software for
“hands-on” exercises that are cross-referenced to the topics.
Book
IV — GIS
Modeling: Applying Map Analysis Tools and
Techniques (columns from 2007
to 2014). This compilation
extends earlier discussions of map analysis concepts, procedures, approaches,
applications and issues affecting contemporary relevance and future potential.
Book
III — Map
Analysis: Understanding Spatial Patterns and
Relationships (columns from 1996
to 2007). This compilation
develops a structured view of the important concepts, considerations and
procedures involved in grid-based map analysis.
Book
II — Spatial
Reasoning for Effective GIS (columns from 1993 to 1996). This compilation encourages the reader to
extend the historic role of maps telling us “Where is what?” to “So what?”
Book I — Beyond
Mapping: Concepts, Algorithms and Issues in GIS (columns
from 1989 to 1993). This compilation
describes an emerging technology that goes beyond traditional mapping and
spatial database management to new concepts and procedures for modeling the
complex interrelations among spatial data of all kinds.
The
resource is available at http://www.innovativegis.com/basis/BeyondMappingSeries/
and permission to use portions of the Beyond Mapping Compilation Series
collection of columns for educational and non-commercial purposes is
granted (and encouraged). Navigation within this tsunami of information
is aided by five separate organizational listings of the individual Beyond
Mapping columns, including a Chronological
Listing of the nearly 300 individual Beyond Mapping
columns; an Application
Listing that organizes the columns by application areas;
an Operations
Listing that organizes the columns by operational
topic/theme discussed; an Interactive
Listing (.doc) that can be searched/sorted by any word or
phrase, topic, theme and application area; and a soon-to-be-published Combined
Index of keywords and phrases covering all four
books (in progress; planned for Fall 2014).
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