Filed under: very open general
After the OGCii (Open Geospatial Consortium Interoperability Institute) meeting the 16th of July 2007 at Nottingham ( see the minutes or some report about it probably soon on www.ogcii.org) I wondered if it is possible that the institute would start a “new” discpline?
Filed under: very open general
The dreaded phrase that echoes through numerous conferences and publications in the geospatial arena. We recently had a discussion about this in our research discussion series, and responses ranged from benevolent engagement to mild hysteria! So what is special about spatial? Is anything special about spatial? Is this even a useful question?
For my part, I’m not sure that it is a useful question. There’s something special about every field of endeavour, otherwise it wouldn’t be distinct from anything else. But the things that are special about spatial are no more important in nature or magnitude than the things are that special in other fields (say biology, medicine or sociology).
Of course there are things that are different about spatial information (I also don’t like that the question omits a noun, but no doubt I’m just being over pedantic), but I’ll give some other people a chance to speak before I go into that…
