CyberGIS

In the article, CyberGIS, Shaowen Wang discusses building the bridge between the digital and geospatial worlds. The path to making the instruments and formats to handle big and interactive data provides many challenges for cyberGIS. Cyberinrastructure, in order to best handle high volumes of relevant, geospatial data, ought to be the product of a collaborative and consensus-driven process.  These kinds of processes benefit the cyberGIS movement best because they monitor the requirements of users and adapt to the changing nature of data formats and technologies. These systems ought to employ backward compatibility and maximize interoperability through standardization and increasingly sophisticated APIs and software applications.

It is also important to comment on wether these platforms and middleware  will be open source and maximize the accessibility of the data for public use. Cyberinfrastructure that values openness may have the capacity to inform civil society and uphold the values of a participatory democracy. Accessible cyberinfrastructure are vital drivers of the knowledge economy. In addition, changes occurring from the emergence of the GeoSpatial and Semantic Web will continue to highlight the value of advancing research in cyberGIS.

Hopefully, the future of cyberGIS will be able to enlighten us about the complexity and globally pervasive environment of the digital world. Advancements of cyberGIS will prove to be very beneficial to society due to the fact we are becoming increasingly reliant on location based services. Platforms such as twitter and the emergence of the internet of things will only continue to grow and legitimize cyberGIS as a subfield within GIScience.

-GeobloggerRB

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