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| Subject: | RE: GISList: ArcView vs MapInfo vs Manifold |
| Date: |
08/28/2002 10:27:22 AM |
| From: |
Dimitri Rotow |
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> This is just more selfserving drivel and sour milk from Manifold. You do
> great disservice to your company and associates. I have to wonder
> just what
> Manifold expects to gain from this....
Neil,
I don't see what all the fuss is about. The original posting in this thread
sought a three-way review of some products of interest to the GIS community.
I posted a response pointing out the practical difficulties, that in-depth
reviews are very time consuming and costly, and that the trade press has to
pay attention to its advertisers.
I'm surprised the latter banal assertion would stir up emotions as it did,
but I don't see how continued debate about journalistic ideals and economics
serves the GIS community. There are other lists for that.
The big issue continues to be the practical difficulty of reviewing large,
comprehensive, complex products in sufficient detail to be useful to the GIS
community. That's something we as a GIS community can do something about.
I suggest a positive step would be to follow the thread that got started
about creating a comprehensive capabilities matrix.
If several people get involved taking leadership roles there is no reason
why the task cannot be chopped up into smaller, manageable sub-tasks. For
example, you could have one person enumerate all database capabilities,
another reporting on all graphics art image manipulation features, a third
on remote sensing capabilities, a fourth on GPS interfaces, a fifth on the
capabilities of the built-in Internet Map Server, and so on.
I'd find it overwhelming to try to enumerate a capabilities matrix with many
hundreds of features, but just a hundred or so image/raster operations would
certainly be doable. All I need is a leader to assign me my part of it.
I'd bet that the different GIS vendors would cooperate in such a program in
the GIS community if a (neutral) leader stepped forth to organize it.
Surely, there are representatives of academic institutions doing GIS
research who would be interested in such a thing, or perhaps GeoComm or
other entity could help coordinate. We'd be happy to provide free licenses
to support such a community evaluation effort.
Cheers,
Dimitri
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