The world of GIS has expanded dramatically in the last two decades. This is due in part to the availability of GIS software, to decreasing costs of hardware, the availability of digital geospatial data and the exponential growth in the Internet. The GIS community realized that GIS represented a rich medium and that their large user base held the potential to improve system interoperability, providing better means for the dissemination and sharing of geographic information (GI) and applications.
by Ian Masser and François Salge
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