Not being a GIS professional take my opinion as a grain of salt:
Certification per se, is not the problem. It is no different than any other measure of "competency", say the SAT. The problem is when any one measure, or small subset of measures is given far more weight than it deserves.
Martin (Innocent bystander)
At 11:33 AM 6/10/2004 -0400, you wrote: >I have visited. I've been following this since early rumblings of it at >URISA surfaced with Dr. Huxhold, and I was actually an early support of it. >Reality and experience changed all that. I see numbers things to download >on the site, but what I don't see is examples of this "portfolio" >measurement process, or the criteria used to compare one person's >"portfolio" vs. the next person to apply. You'll no doubt see where I am
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