GIS Doesn’t Create Complexity. It Just Stops Letting You Ignore It.

Confused?!?!?! At some point, almost every GIS team hears the same complaint: “ GIS makes everything more complicated.” This is usually said right after a map exposes something inconvenient, like the fact that two systems describing the same thing don’t agree on where it is, what it’s called, or who owns it. Naturally, the map is blamed. GIS didn’t make things complicated. It just showed up with…