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Written by Matt Ball
Tuesday, 08 July 2008
采访：关于ESRI的技术发展计划纲要
V1: I understand that this is the first time that you’ve addressed the APA in a keynote address since 1993.
据我所知这是你自93年之后第一次访问APA
Dangermond: The role of GIS in urban planning is an interesting topic to me. Urban planners were one of the first professions to see the promise of GIS, largely because they need to integrate lots of different data and considerations in coming up with their comprehensive, neighborhood and regional plans. They’re data consolidators that get data from a lot of sources and integrate it.
对我来说， 关于GIS在城市规划中所扮演的角色是一个非常有趣的话题。在所有的行业中，城市规划行业的人员可以最先感受到GIS技术对他们的帮助和承诺。主要原因在于，规划人员需要整合不同类型的数据并考虑如何进行全面的规划工作。他们是数据的整合者，因为他们需要从海量的数据源中提取需要的信息并进行整合。
In the past, people like Ian McHarg did that with plastic overlay maps and a lot of manipulation of data. GIS has really provided a framework in which people can bring all of the data together and analyze it with models and analytics to create suitability maps and interpretive maps. GIS helps planners bring together their thoughts for creating plans, but also for communicating those plans to others.
而在过去，像Ian McHarg这样的学者需要使用塑料透明地图以及大量的数据处理才能完成这样的工作。GIS就提供了这样一种框架：人们可以把所有的数据整合到一起，用各种模型和方法进行分析，然后来创建适合的能解释问题的地图。GIS可以帮助规划人员把自己的想法表达成设计方案，同时可以方便人们之间对设计方案的交流。
The visual dimension of GIS is so powerful because it communicates and allows them to tell stories about the future, which in some ways is what planning is about. It also allows them to build consensus with different constituents so that planning becomes much more open and available for people to understand the vision of planners and the consequences of plans. The qualitative analytic environment is totally supportive of that kind of process.
GIS强大的可视化能力可以方便规划人员之间的交流，使他们可以描述未来的场景，这也正是规划行业需要做的。在规划中使用GIS可以平衡多方的需要，使人们协调一致，因为规划工作变得越来越开放，越来越需要人们去了解规划人员的想法和规划方案本身的内容，整个外部环境都在支持和推动这项进程。
V1:
The GIS toolset has come a long way since 1993.
自93年起GIS作为应用工具有了长足的发展
Dangermond: When we first sold GIS, planners had to be GIS experts. Today what’s occurring is that tools are easier to use so that people who aren’t that technical can use and apply them. Also the data is becoming more product oriented. I can buy data off the web as a web service.
当我们最开始销售GIS产品的时候，规划人员要想使用GIS技术需要成为GIS专家才行。到如今，GIS应用工具已经变得越来越简单，人们可以方便的使用这个技术。并且，数据本身也更加的以产品为导向，可以方便的使用，包括通过web服务来购买数据。
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