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What can lessons from the last 30

years tell us about future

mapping?

Tom Timms, Director

STAR-APIC UK

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Outline

Introductions

Life 30 years ago

Mapping 30 years ago

What has changed ?

What has driven change ?

Who has been successful ?

Lessons for the future

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1963 – 2013 CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF THE BRITISH CARTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY 1983 Liege, Belgium

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1983

Petrol 37.6p / litre

Start of TCP/IP & Internet ?

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1983

Pos. Singles, 3rd September 1983 top selling albums

1

RED RED WINE UB40

Thriller Michael Jackson

2

GIVE IT UP KC AND THE SUNSHINE BAND

No Parlez Paul Young

3 GOLD SPANDAU BALLET

Colour By Numbers Culture Club

4

WINGS OF A DOVE MADNESS

Let's Dance , David Bowie

5

I'M STILL STANDING ELTON JOHN

Fantastic , Wham!

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1983

First Division

P W D L F A GD Pts

1 Liverpool 42 24 10 8 87 37 50 82

2 Watford 42 22 5 15 74 57 17 71

3 Manchester United 42 19 13 10 56 38 18 70

4 Tottenham Hotspur 42 20 9 13 65 50 15 69

6 Aston Villa 42 21 5 16 62 50 12 68

8 West Ham United 42 20 4 18 68 62 6 64

9 Ipswich Town 42 15 13 14 64 50 14 58

10 Arsenal 42 16 10 16 58 56 2 58

17 Birmingham City 42 12 14 16 40 55 −15 50

20 Manchester City 42 13 8 21 47 70 −23 47

21 Swansea City 42 10 11 21 51 69 −18 41

22 Brighton & Hove Albion 42 9 13 20 38 68 −30 40

Second Division

P W D L F A GD Pts

1 Queens Park Rangers 42 26 7 9 77 36 41 85

2 Wolverhampton Wanderers 42 20 15 7 68 44 24 75

3 Leicester City 42 20 10 12 72 44 28 70

6 Sheffield Wednesday 42 16 15 11 60 47 13 63

12 Cambridge United 42 13 12 17 42 60 −18 51

18 Chelsea 42 11 14 17 51 61 −10 47

Third Division

1 Portsmouth 46 27 10 9 74 41 33 91

11 Sheffield United 46 19 7 20 62 64 −2 64

Wisden Cricketers of the year 1983

Imran Khan Trevor Jesty Alvin Kallicharran Kapil Dev Malcolm Marshall

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1983

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Polilog

France

Belgium

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What’s changed ?

Communications – Mobile phones, internet …

Location is important – Google, Apple, Oracle, Nokia …

Data

– From no data to Big Data – From private to public data

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Communications – 2013

UK (Ofcom)

– 21m home broadband connections

– 82.7m mobile phone connections

– 94% adults use/own a mobile phone

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What’s driven change - 1

Technology/platform • Mainframes

• Mini computers (VAX, PDP ..)

• Workstations (SUN, IBM, DEC …)

• Personal computers (Windows)

• Tablets & Smartphones (iOS, Android)

• Web/Cloud (?)

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What’s driven change - 2

Government

– National Mapping Agencies

• Data capture programs

– INSPIRE

– OpenData

– Standards – OGC

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What’s driven change - 3

Major players

– Database vendors (Oracle, MS)

– Google (Earth / Maps)

– Apple, Nokia, …

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What’s driven change - 4

Internet

– Freely available mapping

– Crowd sourcing (OSM)

– Location sharing

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Who has been successful ?

Google (1998)

Apple (1976)

Microsoft (1975)

Oracle (1977)

ESRI (1969), Intergraph (1969)

Autodesk (1982), MapInfo (1986) …

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UK companies

1Spatial (Laser-Scan) (1969)

Envitia (1988)

Smallworld / GE (1989)

Cadcorp (1991)

Snowflake (2001)

Specialist

– Maplex, Autoroute, ….

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Lessons learned ?

plus ça change, plus c'est la

même chose

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Lessons – business

US advantages

International influence of UK (& Europe)

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Software

Good (productive) software endures

Simplicity & ease of use essential

From monolithic programs to apps

Open source & commercial

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It’s all about data

From no data & data capture

To data management

Now data distribution

Make it easy

Presentation critical = Cartography

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From

‘Station de Travail Architecture’

To

Geospatial software to manage Land

Property & Infrastructure

• Elyx Suite (GIS)

• Mercator (Cartographic Production)

• Now part of

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Contact details

tom.timms@star-apic.co.uk

@TomTheMap

www.star-apic.co.uk

www.1spatial.com