Address space

摘要

A chasm divides the data warehouse community from the geographic information systems (GIS) community; a chasm I described in my previous column. (See Data Webhouse from the Jan. 1, 2000 issue at IntelligentEnterprise.com.) Although both of these groups talk about data warehouses and about making decisions from their data, they rarely venture onto each other's turf and the apparent overlap of vocabulary is, in fact, misleading.