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Since their inception, geographic information systems have been promoted as vehicles for conducting spatial analysis, that is, for supporting scientists trying to extract meaning and insight from geographic data. Geographers in particular have hoped that GIS would be the 'trojan horse' encouraging and facilitating greater attention to spatial perspectives in other disciplines, and thus raising the utility and practical relevance of geography, and to a large degree this expectation has been realized. But the pace of methodological change in both GIS and spatial analysis has been so rapid in recent years that a stock-taking is appropriate. An assessment is needed of how successful GIS has been at making spatial analysis widely available to physical and social scientists, and of what new directions might be researched in the future.