A world without GIS? Post-GIS futures for the new millennium

Francis Harvey

doi:10.7163/GPol.2014.15

A world without GIS? Post-GIS futures for the new millennium

Francis Harvey

Geography, Environment and Society

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Abstract

We stand on the cusp of an era when anyone with internet access can make a map. With six billion mobile phone subscribers and 2.3 billion internet users will GIS play much of a role in how make and use maps? This paper begins with this question and explores some of the dimensions of how GIS will change in a new world - a world where GIS is integral to countless online activities and hence disappears from most uses. This is world not without GIS, but a post-GIS world of ubiquitous location technologies. While many of these developments, they have negative potential and the article points to areas to consider carefully.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	241-250
Number of pages	10
Journal	Geographia Polonica
Volume	87
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.7163/GPol.2014.15
State	Published - 2014

Keywords

Data-driven science
GIS
Information society
Internet
Ubiquitous computing

UN SDGs

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