14 Quotes & Sayings By Jack Dangermond

Jack Dangermond is the founder of the world's largest wiki, Wikipedia. He was the first employee at Bomis (the company that would later become Wikipedia) and has been the CEO since its inception. Prior to Wikipedia, Jack was the founding Executive Director of Open Source Initiative, leading it through its formative years, and was a founding staff member of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. He is also a member of the advisory board for Wikispaces, an online community created in response to Wikipedia.

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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
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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
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I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape. Jack Dangermond
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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
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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
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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
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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
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We tell stories with maps about global warming, biodiversity; we can design more livable cities, track the spread of epidemics. That makes a difference. Jack Dangermond
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I have high hopes that GIS will become increasingly relevant for landscape architects as we make the tools easier to use for the design process of just inventory and mapping. Jack Dangermond
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I want to have all that scientific information that we're building be used in designing the future so that people who make geographic decisions - and here it's not just land-use planners, but it's everyone: foresters, transportation engineers, people who buy a house - can analyze all of these information layers and design a future. Jack Dangermond
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AppStudio is a native app builder that allows you to build the app and automatically deploy it on Android, i Phone, and Windows. It lets you design it once and then implement it anywhere. Jack Dangermond
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GIS is the only technology that actually integrates many different subjects using geography as its common framework. Jack Dangermond
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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