Thesis: You Can Ditch your Desktop GIS and do Web GIS with JavaScript

The GIS 20 Essential Skills (Clemmer, 2010)

Research Topic

What are the best tools to do online mapping and Web GIS?

Research Hypothesis

Modern users of GIS can ditch their desktop GIS, break up with Esri's ArcMap and create compelling web maps and perform essential geospatial analysis with a new crop of tools that use JavaScript, the scripting language embedded in all web browsers.

Research Method

Take the 20 Essential GIS Tasks listed by Clemmer (2010), group them into different types of GIS Tasks, and demonstrate you can use free and open-source JavaScript tools to perform all the tasks including:
  • Thematic Mapping / Professional Cartography
  • Dealing with GIS Data - both shapes and attributes
  • Using geospatial analysis to answer spatial questions
  • Handling utility operations like Projecting & Geocoding
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