That really seems to smack of wishful thinking, unfortunately. Given the sheer level of capability we’re already seeing in certain types of software–let alone their capacity for learning–I don’t see GIS being particularly resistant to automation.
Off the top of my head, I can’t really think of any "bespoke" GIS work that is fundamentally more complex than producing art, writing news stories, diagnosing a patient, or providing legal counsel, all of which are already in the process of being successfully automated to a greater or lesser extent.
Sure, there’ll be a learning curve with automating GIS, but there is with every […]
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