It’s increasingly apparent that we are now in an era of “just-in-time GIS” and “just enough” GIS, rather than “always already” Big GIS (eg., Esri AcrGIS).

Meaning: TileMill, MapBox, GeoCommons, Fulcrumapp, Epicollect, Google fusion tables, Google Earth, R, GeoJSON, CartoCSS, OpenStreetMap…