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| Subject: | Re: GISList: I concede! .E00 Rules! |
| Date: |
01/12/2002 08:10:00 PM |
| From: |
Stephen Smyrl |
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I think one of the major points in this thread is that data translation is the
key. The best thing about this is that data translation is easy whether using
FME or PCI's GDB Technology or GRASS's various translation tools (the 3 I'm most
familiar with). With data translation as easy as it is (in a Visual Basic
course we created our own *.e00 data reader which displayed a preview of an e00)
and data as cheap as it is (free) I don't see a point to complaining except that
it requires knowing (understanding) multiple data formats. One complaint I
would have is that the public agencies are obviously using the most expensive
tool in the creation and management of this data and that can't be the best use
of tax dollars.
My whistling 2 cents.
Robert Heitzman wrote:
> Ok, I concede. ESRI is the center of the GIS universe and .E00 is an
> excellent interchange format.
>
> Once the thread on .E00 got cross posted (not by me) into ESRI land that has
> become obvious. Obviously the Manifold-L list has either a mole, or a
> defector from ESRI land! :)
>
> Any way... I've been here before, about 10-15 years (20?) before. Then it
> was IBM and DEC reps huddled together behind cipher locked doors with the
> mainframe staff. Calling in the regional sales staff to wine and dine the
> boss till he didn't mind signing off on the latest multi-megabuck purchase
> order. They held up well! For a while.
>
> ESRI may already be dead if history holds. Pick the model: IBM or DEC,
> slightly different, about the same. Either way, dead man walking. Hanging
> onto the data already captured is the last stand. Good luck!
>
> Looks to me that ESRI, and probably the other mainframe/minicomputer era GIS
> firms, are going for the IBM model and will attempt a tighter grip on the
> shops that they already OWN, and their data. IBM is still around anyway, it
> must be a better model than DEC. And they are the center of universe anyway
> - right?
>
> Maybe ESRI will see the light and really try and compete on the desktop.
> Maybe squash all that pesky budget software competition and become another
> Microsoft! Hey, that should make you all happy! You all like the Microsoft
> model - don't you? It'll kill my .E00 complaints, everything will be in
> .esri format - no problem!
>
> Time for dancing lessons guys. Budget time is going to get a lot more
> interesting once the PC class, and open source, software gets established.
>
> Then again what do I know? I'm a newbie to GIS, unfortunately not
> indoctrinated into the ESRI ways. No megabuck investment to defend. Just a
> bozo that hasn’t a clue as to how things really are. (At last - something
> you can agree with! :) Given that I guess you can just ignore all the
> observations above - if you can.
>
> Keep whistling!
>
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