oh you've got this backwards... Its *not* geography, nor is it GIS, when you no longer need to measure in inches, nor be reference book correct. There is a new dimension emerging of spatially enabled data on the web, which may be usefully loose, or in aggregate only partially correct.
Yes, we do need new vocabulary amongst technical practitioners - all the more so since you just wrote this post...
Comments
Re: Neo-paleo-geo
Author: darkblue_b
oh you've got this backwards... Its *not* geography, nor is it GIS, when you no longer need to measure in inches, nor be reference book correct. There is a new dimension emerging of spatially enabled data on the web, which may be usefully loose, or in aggregate only partially correct.
Yes, we do need new vocabulary amongst technical practitioners - all the more so since you just wrote this post...