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Google Earth, GIS, and the Great Divide
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on Friday May 02, @09:09AM
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from the neogeography-in-your-face dept.
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The GEB links to a ScienceDirect article named "Google Earth, GIS, and the Great Divide: A new and simple method for sharing paleontological data".
The article underlines the fact that neogeography tools can be appropriate to some scientists without the need of a full-fledge GIS, reminding me of last December's neogeography vs GIS debate.
From the article's introduction: "GIS is an extraordinarily powerful tool for many aspects of (geo)spatial analyses (Longley et al., 2001), but while used routinely to solve complex spatial analyses problems in many disciplines, its adoption within paleontology has been lagging (Conroy, 2006). Part of the problem is that (a) GIS software is expensive (usually prohibitively so to the individual paleontological researcher) and (b) very few paleontologists are trained in its use."
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