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| Subject: | RE: [gislist] google maps |
| Date: |
02/18/2005 01:10:02 PM |
| From: |
Michael Gould |
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ESRI has geographynetwork.com which is a big marketing portal (of sorts).=
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but otherwise they are a software (not portal) vendor. Mapinfo also.
M Gould
At 19:21 18/02/2005, hvp wrote:
>...this discussion makes you wonder just why did the big guys of GIS-=20
>ESRI, MapInfo, etc, not start a webmapping portal of their own, like=20
>[http://www.mapquest.com], [http://www.mappoint.com],=20
>[http://maps.yahoo.com/] or [http://maps.google.com/]. What could be the=20
>business reason for avoiding what seems like a pot of gold.
>
>Harsh Prakash
>PS: While on Google's foray: Google bought the domain=20
>[http://www.gbrowser.com] last April. Hmn.
>
>---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
>From: "Anthony Quartararo" <ajq3@spatialnetworks.com>
>Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 12:33:00 -0500
>
>I am wondering and musing how this implementation of technology, a=
seemingly
>grand-slam by a non-GIS oriented organization, will impact and affect the
>OGC [and all organizations who put so much effort and $$ into that],=
because
>it appears on the surface at least, that Google, if not Microsoft, and
>others have essentially bypassed the OGC imperatives and done it in grand
>style and with reasonable success.
>
>Anthony
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: gislist-bounces@lists.geocomm.com
>[mailto:gislist-bounces@lists.geocomm.com] On Behalf Of hvp
>Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 4:14 PM
>To: gislist@lists.thinkburst.com
>Subject: RE: [gislist] google maps
>
>Using scripting, frames, etc, to update variables on the client-side=
without
>page-refresh like in Gmail or Google Suggest is smart, but not new- think
>Yahoo got there earlier. If you want to try something simpler with PHP,
>JPSpan [http://jpspan.sourceforge.net/wiki/doku.php] might just work with
>PHPArcIMS [http://phparcims.sourceforge.net/].
>
>Harsh Prakash
>
>---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
>From: Michael Gould <gould@lsi.uji.es>
>Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 18:14:31 +0100
>
>That's right. "GIS" per se is general purpose and analysis oriented.
>
>These apps are special purpose and search + visualization oriented.
>Companies like MSFT and Google know (or can buy experts in) how to search
>and visualize.
>
>Tim Smith asked who builds them? any group of clever programmers, better=
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
> >
> >-----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.
> >
> >- 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
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