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| Subject: | Re: [gislist] Outsourcing GIS |
| Date: |
12/23/2003 09:00:04 AM |
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GISex* Technologies |
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You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.
The Truth suffers from too much analysis.Are you trying to say we Indian making wrong maps ? please do know that it's all the way everything in GIS is made in USA hardware-software-programmings and skill-set and in mathematics you don't get Noble Prize.
Buckjl@aol.com wrote:In his thought-provoking book "To Engineer is Human" Henry Petroski cites the
Code of Hammurabi from ancient Babylon: "If a builder build a house for a man
and do not make its construction firm, and the house which he has built
collapse and cause the death of the owner of the house, that builder shall be put
to death. If it cause the death of the son of the owner of the house, they
shall put to death the son of the builder. If it cause the death of a slave of the
owner of the house, he shall give to the owner of the house a slave of equal
value."
GIS ranges from popular illustration thru computer science and data
management to hard civil engineering. Whom shall we "put to death" over damages from an
egregious error in a GIS record created around the world by an outsourced
technician? Whom shall we hold accountable when a homeowner cannot get clear
title to his property because a technician around the world incorrectly encodes
the property description? Whom shall we hold accountable when a GPS-guided bomb
falls on a latitude and longitude that mistakenly targets a hospital? It's one
thing to outsource a $3 padlock or the creation of entertainment software (or
hardware). But outsourcing the creation and maintenance of the legal and
technical description of civil engineering data is another. Which leads into that
other fun topic of certification of GIS professionals, doesn't it?
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Jay L. Buckley
JLB Associates, Ltd.
11516 Dahlia Terrace
Potomac, MD 20854
301-987-7269
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With best wishes,
Krishan Sharma, Ph.D. (USA)
www.gisextechnologies.com
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