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| Subject: | Re: GISList: 80% of data having spatial reference? |
| Date: |
12/07/2001 10:34:42 AM |
| From: |
Wunneburger, Douglas F. |
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Ah,
But the vendors who supply football jumpers in certain shades with specific
amounts of magenta would.
Hence, a map displaying the locations of such vendors would not be so far
fetched.
Isn't that spatial?
Doug Wunneburger
----- Original Message -----
From: "Graeme Brooke" <gbrooke@shortech.com.au>
To: <gislist@geocomm.com>
Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 7:24 AM
Subject: RE: GISList: 80% of data having spatial reference?
> Spoken like a true GIS guy, Bill. But some stuff doesn't: the amount of
> magenta in the average football jumper for instance... :-)
>
> Graeme Brooke
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: McGuyer William C Contr 88 ABW/EMO
> [mailto:William.McGuyer@wpafb.af.mil\
> Sent: Friday, 30 November 2001 11:03 PM
> To: gislist@geocomm.com
> Subject: RE: GISList: 80% of data having spatial reference?
>
>
> In all honesty is there any valid method of quantitatively determining the
> approximate percentage of ALL data having a spatial reference? In reality
> everything has some sort of spatial reference.
>
> Bill McGuyer
> GIS Consultant
> Intergraph Mapping/GIS Solutions
> (937) 257-2201, ext. 239
> WPAFB 88 ABW/EM
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Thoen [mailto:bthoen@gisnet.com\
> Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 1:08 AM
> To: gislist@geocomm.com
> Subject: Re: GISList: 80% of data having spatial reference?
>
>
> Steven Ramage wrote:
> > I believe it is generally attributed to the "Handling of Geographic
> > Information" - Report of the Committee of Enquiry chaired by Lord
Chorley
> in
> > 1987. See also
> > http://www.agi.org.uk/public/what-is-agi/objectives/history.htm.
> >
>
> Chorley's quote is not in that URL. I'd really like to see that
> document as it appears to be a seminal paper in GIS -- especially in
> the UK. I did find a ref to it at
> http://www.stile.lboro.ac.uk/~gydrw/STILE/t0050020.html, but no
> quote. Is there anyone here near the Pilkington Library who could go
> look it up for us?
>
> I echoed that quote that Chris seeks (exaggerated to 85%) in GEO
> World in Feb 1999 (see last paragraph of
> http://www.gw.geoplace.com/gw/1999/0299/299gonln.asp), but I'll be
> dipped if I can locate my source now. I'm pretty sure I had seen it
> attributed to an Integraph exec back in the late 80's, but in
> searching my notes I found this:
>
> "70 to 80 percent of the activities and information your agency is
> concerned with are related to location"
> Somers, Rebecca. 1987. "Geographic Information Systems in Local
> Government: A Commentary." "Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote
> Sensing." 53(10): p. 1379.
>
> That puts the quote in 1987 also. Did Chorley read Somers or was it
> the other way 'round? Or was it is someone else, now lost in the
> mists of Time, who first struck the spark that ignited that quote in
> our group consciousness? This question comes up about every three or
> four years on the current GIS list, and I've not seen it answered
> definitively yet.
>
> Can anyone here peel back the layers of history and legend and find
> a documented reference that pins this concept/revelation to an
> earlier date?
>
> --
> - Bill Thoen
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