> As searches have become more powerful in recent years so I would think > that the most frequent way of locating a location would be a text > search.
Not sure if I am being confused with Phil Middlemass, the TUMONZ developer, but anyway... You might be right - that may be the commonest way to find you way on a map. However, its probably not the modus operandi of GIS users like myself. Zooming on a large scale map work for me perhaps because of day in/ day out use of map. I am also not usually looking at map to find a location so much as to find out about things in a map context. So if have a GIS would you buy TUMONZ? Hmm. Frankly, only got it because it provided a cheapskate way to access a layer (property owner) that expense to buy and maintain for a GIS. However, GIS have a well deserved reputation for steep learning curves and consequently a lot of work has gone into usability. I wouldn't throw away the hard-earned lessons in the modern GIS interface lightly. That maplet looked pretty good to me Phil. ---------------------------------------------------------- Phil Scadden, Senior Scientist. Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences 764 Cumberland St, Private Bag 1930, Dunedin, New Zealand Ph +64 3 4799663, fax +64 3 477 5232 _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list [email protected] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi
