{"id":4570,"date":"2011-05-02T21:32:37","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T02:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/?p=4570"},"modified":"2011-05-03T09:53:25","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T14:53:25","slug":"predictive-gis-and-geospatial-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/2011\/05\/predictive-gis-and-geospatial-decisions\/","title":{"rendered":"predictive gis and geospatial intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/13740-mapping-patterns-crime-geography-math-bts-110415.html\">recent article at Live Science<\/a> looks at the work of Robert Cheetham, &#8220;one of two landscape architects&#8230; hired to start a Crime Analysis and Mapping Unit for the Philadelphia Police Department&#8221; fourteen years ago, and today the founder of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.azavea.com\/\">a consulting company<\/a> that provides &#8220;geospatial analysis services to enhance decision-making&#8221;, including developing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.azavea.com\/\">a software system<\/a> for his previous employers that does &#8220;geographic crime analysis, early warning and risk forecasting&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Having (I think, I&#8217;m not bothering to track down the location at the moment) before posited that landscape architecture, like architecture, possesses some strong disciplinary\u00a0aptitude for something(s) like\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/2009\/10\/dan-hill-on-the-sentient-city\/\">&#8220;spatial intelligence&#8221;<\/a> (we landscape architects might call our version &#8220;geospatial intelligence&#8221;) which make the discipline at least as valuable when it is <a href=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/2010\/09\/architects-without-architecture\/\">understood as a way of thinking<\/a> as when it is understood as a professional body of techniques, and also believing that the capacity to interpret and represent spatial patterns within landscape is a particularly important manifestation of spatial intelligence within the discipline, I find examples like this extremely encouraging, because they indicate that there <em>is <\/em>some validity to that argument.<\/p>\n<p><em>[Link via Damian Holmes (<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/landreader\/status\/59281320626495489\">@landreader<\/a>).]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent article at Live Science looks at the work of Robert Cheetham, &#8220;one of two landscape architects&#8230; hired to start a Crime Analysis and Mapping Unit for the Philadelphia Police Department&#8221; fourteen years ago, and today the founder of a consulting company that provides &#8220;geospatial analysis services to enhance decision-making&#8221;, including developing a software [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,43,397],"tags":[575,31,426,564,218],"class_list":["post-4570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asides","category-landscape-architecture","category-the-expanded-field","tag-geospatial-intelligence","tag-mapping","tag-representation","tag-spatial-intelligence","tag-visualization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4570"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4666,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4570\/revisions\/4666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}