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| Subject: | RE: [gislist] google maps |
| Date: |
02/16/2005 11:20:01 AM |
| From: |
Michael Gould |
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That's right. "GIS" per se is general purpose and analysis oriented.
These apps are special purpose and search + visualization oriented.=20
Companies like MSFT and Google know (or can buy experts in) how to search=20
and visualize.
Tim Smith asked who builds them? any group of clever programmers, better=20
if they are not constrained by notions of what GIS is supposed to be, or do.
Mike Gould
p.s.- similar story for LBS
At 16:01 16/02/2005, Sonny Parafina wrote:
>In my opinion, spatial is no longer special and companies that insist that
>it is will go the way of the dodo.
>
>BTW, good see you posting to this incarnation of gis-l, Bill.
>
>sonny
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: gislist-bounces@lists.thinkburst.com
>[mailto:gislist-bounces@lists.thinkburst.com]On Behalf Of Bill Thoen
>Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 9:40 AM
>To: gislist@lists.thinkburst.com
>Subject: RE: [gislist] google maps
>
>
>On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, Michael Gould wrote:
>
> > Yes, another example of how, when you want to paint fast maps on the
> > screen, you don't need a heavy GIS-based solution behind the scenes,=
only
>a
> > clever programmer. Terraserver demonstrated this several years back:=
lots
> > of server power and lots of GBs, but a simple concept for retrieval and
> > visualization. The swiss map is even simpler, because they manage fewer
> > possible tiles.
>
>Makes you wonder why most of the major popular GIS applications (Mapquest,
>MapPoint, Terraserver, and now Google) are being developed by companies
>not known for their GIS capabilities.
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>- Bill Thoen
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Michael Gould
Information Systems Department
(Lenguajes y Sistemas Inform=E1ticos)
Universitat Jaume I
E-12071 Castell=F3n, Spain
http://www.mgould.com
GeoInfo group http://www.geoinfo.uji.es
and TeIDE SDI consortium http://redgeomatica.rediris.es/teide/
2005 Vespucci summer school http://www.vespucci.org
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