This presentation at the University of Ottawa's GIS Day in 2006 was prepared as part of the Geography Awareness Week program, Canadian Association of Geographers.The objectives of the presentation were to illustrate to secondary school and university students the importance of geography in understanding the social, economic, planning, development, environmental, political, and other affairs of the world from the local to the international scales, and outline how geographrapic information systems (GIS) technology and applications contribute to mapping, anaysing, synthesizing, and understanding these geography-related situations and relationships, and then to designing geographic-based solutions to these problems.

1. Geography and Geographic Information Systems (GIS): New Realities of Canada as An Emerging Information Society Dr. Barry Wellar, Professor (ret.), University of Ottawa, and Media Program Director Geography Awareness Week Canadian Association of Geographers Materials for a presentation at GIS Day 2006 University of Ottawa Department of Geography and Environmental Studies University of Ottawa November 15, 2006 University Centre

10. Images from the Doomsday Map Project: Ecological Disaster and Local Response Geography and Geographic Information Systems (GIS): New Realities of Canada as An Emerging Information Society

11. Images from the Doomsday Map Project: Ecological Disaster and Local Response Geography and Geographic Information Systems (GIS): New Realities of Canada as An Emerging Information Society

12. Images from the Doomsday Map Project: Ecological Disaster and Local Response Geography and Geographic Information Systems (GIS): New Realities of Canada as An Emerging Information Society

13. Images from the Doomsday Map Project: Ecological Disaster and Local Response Geography and Geographic Information Systems (GIS): New Realities of Canada as An Emerging Information Society

14. Images from the Doomsday Map Project: Ecological Disaster and Local Response Geography and Geographic Information Systems (GIS): New Realities of Canada as An Emerging Information Society

15. Images from the Doomsday Map Project: Ecological Disaster and Local Response Geography and Geographic Information Systems (GIS): New Realities of Canada as An Emerging Information Society

16. Images from the Doomsday Map Project: Ecological Disaster and Local Response Geography and Geographic Information Systems (GIS): New Realities of Canada as An Emerging Information Society

17. Images from the Doomsday Map Project: Ecological Disaster and Local Response Geography and Geographic Information Systems (GIS): New Realities of Canada as An Emerging Information Society

18. Images from the Doomsday Map Project: Ecological Disaster and Local Response The Geographer’s Lament With too many wrong things In too many wrong places, We have just about ________ All our life support spaces Geography and Geographic Information Systems (GIS): New Realities of Canada as An Emerging Information Society

19. Geography and Geographic Information Systems: Combining to Create a Spatially-Aware Information Society Geography and Geographic Information Systems (GIS): New Realities of Canada as An Emerging Information Society

20. Figure 1. Geography, the Media, and the Pursuit and Application of Data, Information and Knowledge to Create a Spatially-Aware Information Society (1): Components Geography and Geographic Information Systems (GIS): New Realities of Canada as An Emerging Information Society

21. Figure 2. Geography, the Media, and the Pursuit and Application of Data, Information and Knowledge to Create a Spatially-Aware Information Society (2): Connections Geography and Geographic Information Systems (GIS): New Realities of Canada as An Emerging Information Society

22. Figure 3. Geography, the Media, and the Pursuit and Application of Data, Information and Knowledge to Create a Spatially-Aware Information Society (3): The Typology of Stories Geography and Geographic Information Systems (GIS): New Realities of Canada as An Emerging Information Society

23. Table 1. Terms and Concepts Which Underlie the Work of the Geographic Community, and Indicate the Potential for Creating A Spatially-Aware Information Society Concentric Connect (ion/ivity) Contiguous Continent(al) Conurbation Coordinates Core Correlation Countryside Density Diffusion Dimension Disperse(ion) Distance Distribution Edge Effect Elevation Encroach(ment) Environment Everywhere Extrusion Far Field Fjord Flow(s) Form Fringe Function(al/ity) Geocode Geodetic Geofactor Geographic Geomatic Geometric Geopolitical Georeference Geospatial GIS/GISSc Global(ization) Grid Gridlock Habitat Hinterland Interaction Intersection Intrusion Island Isolate(ion) Land Landscape Latitude Line Link Locality Location Local(ization) Longitude Map Margin(al) Meridian Migration Morphology Movement Nation(al/ization) Near(ness) Neighbor Network NIMBY Node Nowhere Object Orientation Origin Overlay Parcel Partition Path Pattern Pedshed Perimeter Periphery Place Plain Plane Point Pole(ar/ity) Polygon(al) Proximity Quadrangle Quadrant Region Relation(ship) Right-of-way Route Rural Scale Segregate(ion) Shape Shed Site Situation Slope Somewhere Space Spatial Sphere Sprawl Spread Strip Structure Surface System Territory Topographic Topology(ic) Urban(ex/sub) Vector Walkshed Ward Warren Watershed Where YIMBY Zone Accessible (ity) Adjacent(cy) Agglomerate (ion) Aggregate(ion) Along(side) Amalgamate(ion) Anywhere Arc Area(polygon) Around Association Block Border Boundary Buffer Cause(al/ity) Center Centrality Circle Close(ness) Clump Cluster Coastal Commutershed Concentrate(ion) Geography and Geographic Information Systems (GIS): New Realities of Canada as An Emerging Information Society

24. Table 2. Ten of the Most Critical Geographic Terms and Concepts Underlying GIS Applications that Advance Canada as a Spatially-Aware Information Society Geography and Geographic Information Systems (GIS): New Realities of Canada as An Emerging Information Society Interaction Linkage Pattern Relationship System Accessibility Causality Connection Density Functionality

25. Figure 4. The Data-Information-Knowledge Transform Process: Simple Model Geography and Geographic Information Systems (GIS): New Realities of Canada as An Emerging Information Society

26. How Are Geographers and the GIS Community Helping Canada to Advance as a Spatially-Aware Information Society? Geography and Geographic Information Systems (GIS): New Realities of Canada as An Emerging Information Society

27. http://www.cag-acg.ca/en/ www.gisday.com www.geomatics.uottawa.ca/gisday http://www.ccge.org/ccge/english/Newsletter/symposium_june 2005.asp Check Out the Following Sources References For information about the sources used for this presentation contact B. Wellar at [email_address] Geography and Geographic Information Systems (GIS): New Realities of Canada as An Emerging Information Society