GIS is the only technology that actually integrates many different subjects using geography as its common framework.

GIS is waking up the world to the power of geography, this science of integration, and has the framework for creating a better future.

Landscape architecture is basically geodesign; it's designing geography. And yet geodesign is not only done by landscape architects, it's done by some of the world's largest corporations.

GIS, in its digital manifestation of geography, goes beyond just the science. It provides us a framework and a process for applying geography. It brings together observational science and measurement and integrates it with modeling and prediction, analysis, and interpretation so that we can understand things.

Our world is evolving without consideration, and the result is a loss of biodiversity, energy issues, congestion in cities. But geography, if used correctly, can be used to redesign sustainable and more livable cities.

A number of organizations are already using Web GIS to create shared information and facilitate collaboration, and it is literally changing the way organizations operate.