2013 6 inch resolution

1999 2 ft resolution

2014 3 inch resolution & LiDAR!!!

Disruptive Innovations in GIS

Changing Views from Above

Platform Shoes – Developer, Developer, Developer – Location, Location, Location – Data, Data, Data – Mapping Revolutions

Shifting Sands on our Horizon

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Desktop GISfor EVERYONE!

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July 2009 50,000 apps and 1 billion downloads

Database, Database, Database

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Open Spatial DataCrowdsourced Data

Open Source Software

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