Spatial is Indeed Special…but GIS Software Skills will Soon be Obsolete
I’m fairly new to the blogosphere and Twitter and most of the other forms of social media so I hope you’ll forgive me for arriving late to the party and digging up relatively old posts. I read a recent post by James Fee on his Spatially Adjusted blog that referred back to a 2009 blog post arguing that “Spatial is not Special“. Sorry to be 2.5 years late to comment but if no one else has formed an opposition to this opinion, please allow me to be the first.
If James had titled his post “GIS is not Special”, I wouldn’t have felt compelled to debate, because GIS software is not special, but “spatial” is indeed special. Here’s why: