Static or dynamic?

static: capes and bays, how the world looks
dynamic: processes, how the world works

we won't capture public attention until we deal with time

public policy is about change

static is part of the cartographic legacy

favors phenomena that are static or slow to change

value of information decreases with time

most valuable parts of a database are the deltas

what travels down the optic nerve?

static terabytes a day from satellites

imagined manipulation

understanding of spatial autocorrelation

fields vs objects and the behavior of polygons

attribute validity

time slices

PCRaster

ARC/INFO coverages

regions

third dimension

point trajectories

pathological cases

there are no spatiotemporal data

technology is data driven

data models supporting software functionality

how many data models can be supported simultaneously?