Reflections and speculations on the progress in Geographic Information Systems (GIS): a geographic perspective |
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| Authors: | Guonian Lü Michael Batty Josef Strobl Hui Lin A-Xing Zhu |
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| Institution: | 1. Key Laboratory of Virtual Geographic Environment, Ministry of Education of PRC, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China;2. Jiangsu Center for Collaborative Innovation in Geographical Information Resource Development and Application, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China;3. Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London, London, UK;4. Interfaculty Department of Geoinformatics, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria;5. Institute of Space and Earth Information Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China;6. Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Wisconsin, USA |
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| Abstract: | Great strides have been made in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) research over the past half-century. However, this progress has created both opportunities and challenges. From a geographic perspective, certain challenges remain, including the modelling of geographic-featured environments with GIS data model, the enhancement of GIS’s analysis functions for comprehensive geographic analysis and achieving human-oriented geographic information presentation. Several basic theoretical and technical ideas that follow the workflow and processes of geographic information induction, geographic scenario modelling, geographic process analysis and geographic environment representation are proposed to fill the gaps between GIS and geography. We also call for designing methods for big geographic data-oriented analysis, making best use of videos and developing virtual geographic scenario-based GIS for further evolution. |
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| Keywords: | Geographic Information Systems (GIS) improvement ideas geographic perspective geographic process Geographic Information Science (GIScience) |
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