Around 1991, Les. Worral has informed us that "more than 80% of data used by
managers and decision makers is related geographically". Back then, at the very early days of world wide web (WWW), with the absence of smartphones and Location Based Services (LBS) such news signified the important contribution of geograpfical thinking and relationships of data used by decision and policy makers. Today, after 23 years of major advances of internet with cloud computing and using real-time web-gis servers and geospatial modules, with availability of qualitative Open-Source software and web-services, is it possible to estimate the geographical relation of data used by managers and decision makers at a global scale? Is there existant such a research approach?
Again it is a good research question. Although, it may be difficult to quantify the exact percentage of data being used by managers and decision makers that it is related geographically today without empirical studies. Please see this report.
www.oxera.com/.../What-is-the-economic-impact-of-Geo-services_1.pdf
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