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| Subject: | RE: [gislist] Outsourcing GIS |
| Date: |
12/23/2003 09:10:01 AM |
| From: |
Anthony Quartararo |
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Oh give it a rest. As if the Nobel prize process is even remotely
objective or somehow related to this discussion ?=20
-----Original Message-----
From: gislist-bounces@lists.geocomm.com
[mailto:gislist-bounces@lists.geocomm.com] On Behalf Of GISex* =
Technologies
Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2003 9:57 AM
To: Buckjl@aol.com: gislist@lists.thinkburst.com
Subject: Re: [gislist] Outsourcing GIS
=20
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don=12t =
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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