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Putting the Geographical Analysis Machine on the Internet
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Why bother?
Vendor Excuses Include:
A basic Conjecture..
The problem is essentially that of creating a problem oriented Geographical Analysis Culture amongst End-Users
There are three additional problems:
The WWW provides a Solution
Mark 1 Geographical Analysis Machine
Geographical Analysis Machine (GAM) history
BUT
10 years ago GAM/1 was a mixed blessing!
GAM/1: good aspects
GAM/1: Bads
International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)
Results published in Alexander and Boyle (1996)
Reviving GAM/K
Making GAM/K run faster
How does GAM work?
Why not put the GAM Machine on the Internet!
It was SURPRISINGLY easy to do!
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The next problem was how to allow users to download onto their local machines the full GAM system as run at Leeds
Possible Solutions (1)
Possible Solutions (2)
Sample Run Times (mean of 10 on Sun Ultra 30)
BUT
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Unresolved security problems with Java
Conclusions
If you want to try out WWW-GAM http://www.ccg.leeds.ac.uk/smart/intro.html
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Authors: Stan Openshaw, Ian Turton, and James Macgill, School of Geography
Email:
stan@geog.leeds.ac.uk
i.turton@geog.leeds.ac.uk
j.macgill@geog.leeds.ac.uk
Home Page:
http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/staff/s.openshaw/
http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/staff/i.turton/i.turton.html
http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/pgrads/j.macgill/home.html
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