Part 1 Spatial analysts and GIS practitioners

Michael F. Goodchild
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Michael F. Goodchild: National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, and Department of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4060, USA (e-mail: good@ncgia.ucsb.edu.)

Journal of Geographical Systems, 2000, vol. 2, issue 1, 5-10

Abstract: Abstract. The history of GIS is traced, and a working definition is established. The early development of GIS was driven by spatial analysis, but more recent visions of the role of information technology generally, and GIS in particular, have tended to widen rather than narrow the gap between the two fields. GIS is seen as serving a much more populist vision, in which rigorous and mathematically sound analysis is challenged from a number of directions. Four basic tensions are identified, and the current status of efforts to resolve them is reviewed.

Keywords: Key words: GIS; spatial analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000
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DOI: 10.1007/s101090050022

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