I think it is widely agreed that Carl Steinitz, over the 50 years he taught at Harvard, has been one of the most important figures in influencing the theory and practice of landscape architecture and the application of computer technology to planning. - Jack Dangermond 1 Share Now -
GIS is the only technology that actually integrates many different subjects using geography as its common framework. - Jack Dangermond 2 Share Now -
GIS started on mainframe computers; we could get one map every five to 10 hours, and if we made a mistake, it could take longer. In the early '90s, when people started buying PCs, we migrated to desktop software. - Jack Dangermond 3 Share Now -
Once you digitize data, you can actually analyze patterns and relationships in geographic space - relationships between certain health patterns and air or water pollution, between plants and climate, soils, landscape. - Jack Dangermond 4 Share Now -
There is the GIS world that is largely managing authoritative data sources, supporting geocentric workflows like fixing roads, making cities more livable through better planning, environmental management, forest management, drilling in the right location for oil, managing assets and utilities. - Jack Dangermond 5 Share Now -
GIS, in its digital manifestation of geography, goes beyond just the science. It provides us a framework and a process for applying geography. It brings together observational science and measurement and integrates it with modeling and prediction, analysis, and interpretation so that we can understand things. - Jack Dangermond 6 Share Now -
GIS is waking up the world to the power of geography, this science of integration, and has the framework for creating a better future. - Jack Dangermond 7 Share Now -
Once you digitize data, you can actually analyze patterns and relationships in geographic space - relationships between certain health patterns and air or water pollution, between plants and climate, soils, landscape. - Jack Dangermond 8 Share Now -
Landscape architecture is basically geodesign; it's designing geography. And yet geodesign is not only done by landscape architects, it's done by some of the world's largest corporations. - Jack Dangermond 9 Share Now -
I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape. - Jack Dangermond 10 Share Now -