Future Directions of Maps and GIS

Objectives

• Concluding lecture
• More Resources
• Further courses

Future Directions?

If technological change is meant to be so inevitable, why is it so hard to pick the future winners?

What this course attempted to cover:

• A technology of representation as it is reconfigured.
• A way to talk about the environment.
• A way to organize data to construct new information

Has the digital revolution heralded the death of the map?

Far from it.

Has the availability of software tools changed who makes maps?

Certainly.

Has it "lowered standards" or just democratized the practice?

too early to tell?

More Resources: