Talk:CyberGIS

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Initial author of draft (User:Austinstig) has is a CyberGIS researcher. However, the author is not currently funded by the National Science Foundation to conduct CyberGIS research. The author has a relationship with the CyberGIS Center for Advanced Digital and Spatial Studies as one of its students. The author is not funded by the facility. CyberGIS is a nationally recognized discipline of research within Geographic Information Science and is separate from any institutional entity.

Propose merging this page with Web GIS[edit]

The term CyberGIS is not used extensively in the literature while Web GIS is. It seems CyberGIS is an organization or research center, and a proprietary name brand. The page should be changed to reflect that it is for the CyberGIS Center for Advanced Digital and Spatial Studies, and other content moved onto the Web GIS page.GeogSage (talk) 04:09, 22 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Neutrality and Verifiability[edit]

Digging into the literature on this topic, much of this article is based very heavily on content from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign researchers. While the department there has definitely published a lot of literature using the CyberGIS banner, there is not a lot of it cited here.

Much of the work that is being done by this department appears to be very similar to Web GIS, and not clearly differentiated to me. It appears they are attempting to establish a new term in the literature, which is fine through the channels they are using. However, the article here is originated by a former student of the CyberGIS Center for Advanced Digital and Spatial Studies, and much of the language seems to be slanted towards the new term or promotional in nature.

I added the notice for both neutrality and verifiability because of this.

Non-bias language, and additional citations would dramatically improve it. Further the term needs to be clearly defined in relation to existing and established GIS concepts of Distributed GIS, Internet GIS, and Web GIS. From what I've read, it seems to be a Web GIS application that is linking institutions together to share servers and computational power, but some of the literature seems to be trying to establish CyberGIS as a purely separate concept. GeogSage ^{(⚔Chat?⚔)} 03:20, 25 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Propose merging this page with Distributed GIS[edit]

The last post on this talk page didn't get any reply, but I'll still post regardless.

Looking into the literature, Cyber GIS generally uses the World Wide Web. However, one article mentions uses the internet, and I don't see a reason it couldn't employ other networks in the literature. Therefore, it would be distributed GIS in terms of categorization. As this term is not used widely outside of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, I am proposing merging some of the material from this page into a subsection under 'Types' on the Distributed GIS, and replacing this page with a redirect. This is because there is significant overlap, not enough content on Cyber GIS within the broad literature to warrant its own page.

Based on my review of the literature, I believe this is the best action to resolve neutrality, sources, and improve both pages. I will post a notice on Distributed GIS for discussion, and wait one week for feedback. GeogSage ^{(⚔Chat?⚔)} 17:39, 7 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

After waiting a week, I have assumed silent consensus and gone through with the merge. GeogSage ^{(⚔Chat?⚔)} 03:45, 15 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]