Jack Dangermond
Web GIS provides us with a whole new window into our information through applications that are easy, 3D, and analytic. These applications are not just casual things, but reach deep into geographic knowledge and apply it.Collection: Knowledge
There is the GIS world that is largely managing authoritative data sources, supporting geocentric workflows like fixing roads, making cities more livable through better planning, environmental management, forest management, drilling in the right location for oil, managing assets and utilities.Collection: Environmental
I think it is widely agreed that Carl Steinitz, over the 50 years he taught at Harvard, has been one of the most important figures in influencing the theory and practice of landscape architecture and the application of computer technology to planning.Collection: Architecture
GIS started on mainframe computers; we could get one map every five to 10 hours, and if we made a mistake, it could take longer. In the early '90s, when people started buying PCs, we migrated to desktop software.Collection: Computers
GIS, in its digital manifestation of geography, goes beyond just the science. It provides us a framework and a process for applying geography. It brings together observational science and measurement and integrates it with modeling and prediction, analysis, and interpretation so that we can understand things.Collection: Science
GIS is waking up the world to the power of geography, this science of integration, and has the framework for creating a better future.Collection: Future
I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.Collection: Computers
Landscape architecture is basically geodesign; it's designing geography. And yet geodesign is not only done by landscape architects, it's done by some of the world's largest corporations.Collection: Architecture
I want to have all that scientific information that we're building be used in designing the future so that people who make geographic decisions - and here it's not just land-use planners, but it's everyone: foresters, transportation engineers, people who buy a house - can analyze all of these information layers and design a future.Collection: Design
GIS is the only technology that actually integrates many different subjects using geography as its common framework.Collection: Technology
The application of GIS is limited only by the imagination of those who use itCollection: Imagination
Knowing where things are, and why, is essential to rational decision makingCollection: Knowing
Our world is evolving without consideration, and the result is a loss of biodiversity, energy issues, congestion in cities. But geography, if used correctly, can be used to redesign sustainable and more livable cities.Collection: Loss
Don't ever walk by a wilting plant. Get water on it right away.Collection: Water