Talk:Geographic information system/to do

[ smervin 3/07 added sentence about Harvard Lab (LCGSA) to the History section. Also started separate wiki page about LCGSA but got 'speedily deleted' by zealous Wiki Admin who claimed "no assertion of notability"]
 * Remove Climate Change subsection from the Developments in GIS section. It is an example of a use of GIS technology, not a development in the technology.
 * Reference a good paper discussing the object/field abstraction in the Data representation section.
 * Combine the Projections, coordinate systems and registration section with the Relating information from different sources section.
 * history section - Tighten up discussion of CGIS (create a separate page for it?)
 * history section - Add discussion of DIME format (first well known use of topologic data structure)
 * history section - Add discussion of the US universities (Harvard Laboratory for Computer Graphics) that contributed to early GIS research (they went on to form ESRI and GRASS)
 * history section - Add contributions of SFU to early GIS research (TIN format)
 * Decide what to do about the GIS software section
 * Decide on an overall focus for this article and how it relates to other fields used by GIS (GI Science, geoimformatics, etc)
 * Needs to be information regarding the creation of data, specifically the different interpolation methods
 * Make this page plain language that wider community can understand
 * Raster section - this is very weak in its description of raster data.
 * Desperately needs a discussion of uncertainty in data measurement and analysis. This is probably the top item of importance and least intuitive for a newcomer to understand.
 * Review the use of data as a plural noun in this article. Though I acknowledge the traditional use of it as the plural of the Latin datum--and am not quick to abandon tradition--I find it awkward and distracting here. I believe the majority of modern English users treat data as a noun of quantity these days (like water, air, information)--see the usage note in its AHD entry here.-Eric talk 15:42, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Want to add Gis Video "Species Distribution Models with GIS and Machine Learning in R" which will help the users to understand it more easily and want to give a link to that title so that the user gets to know this is available at Packt.