Next generation of GIS: must be easy

Zhu，A. Xing1,2,3,4; Zhao，Fang He2,5; Liang，Peng2,5; Qin，Cheng Zhi2,5

2020

10.1080/19475683.2020.1766563

Annals of GIS   影响因子和分区

1947-5683

1947-5691

Existing GIS software mainly target at expert users and do not sufficiently integrate resources for efficient computing. They are difficult for non-experts to use and are often slow in completing the complicated geographic analysis. To address these problems, future generation of GIS software must be ‘easy’. By ‘easy’ we mean ‘easy to use’ and ‘easy to compute’. ‘Easy to use’ means that software system should be goal-oriented, rather than the currently procedure-oriented doctrine. The goal-oriented will relieve users, particularly novice users, the burden of knowing the exact commands and their sequences to perform for achieving the goal they want to achieve. ‘Easy to compute’ means that implementation of GIS analytical functionality should be able to utilize the high-performance computing infrastructures for complicated geographic analysis. Two case studies, one in digital soil mapping and the other in digital terrain analysis, are presented to illustrate the meaning of ‘easy’. We believe that the future generations of GIS platforms should be goal-driven, intelligent, high-performance computing enabled, easily accessible, and participatory. It allows anyone to participate in geo-computation at anywhere and anytime.

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英语

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1.Jiangsu Center for Collaborative Innovation in Geographical Information Resource Development and Application,School of Geography,Nanjing Normal University,Nanjing,China
2.State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System,Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing,China
3.Department of Geography,University of Wisconsin-Madison,Madison,United States
4.Center for Social Sciences,Southern University of Science and Technology,Shenzhen,China
5.College of Resources and Environment,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing,China

Zhu，A. Xing,Zhao，Fang He,Liang，Peng,et al. Next generation of GIS: must be easy[J]. Annals of GIS,2020.

Zhu，A. Xing,Zhao，Fang He,Liang，Peng,&Qin，Cheng Zhi.(2020).Next generation of GIS: must be easy.Annals of GIS.

Zhu，A. Xing,et al."Next generation of GIS: must be easy".Annals of GIS (2020).