Experts view on the growing popularity of GIS and the opportunities for IT companies to explore this domain…

Brad Skelton, CTO, Erdas Inc.
GIS is now ubiquitous. It should be noted that digital cameras and cell phone now contain GPS and even tools such a photo organizers now contain mapping software which can located family photos on a map. The opportunities span the gamut from large industrial applications to consumer and gaming. This growing number of applications requires more and more GIS and IT skilled developers.

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Jim Barry, Program Manager, ESRI Developer Network (EDN)
Without well-managed, accurate, and complete spatial data, and without the GIS tools and techniques for analyzing and using that data, an overall IT implementation strategy is incomplete. GIS adds the "where" to IT. One would be hard pressed to come up with problems that can be solved with IT that do not have some spatial component to them.

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