Whether commercial or open source, this technology is difficult to
learn. I think the problem is that academia doesn't know what these
new tools are good for. Someone mentioned the Tomlin book. It's great
if you need to do spatial analysis for landscape ecology or urban
planning. If you're interested in collaborative geo-information
sharing, the new open source tools are great for this, but there is
no curriculum or textbook to reference. Until the next Tomlin comes
along and puts the conceptual foundation in place, I believe the
situation Arnulf describes will persist.
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Raj
On May 13, 2007, at 8:19 AM, Arnulf Christl wrote:
Ther is absoultely no support or even requests from professors. I
guess
this has to do with several reasons, one is not knowing how to do it
themselves, another is lack of time (turning universities into
businesses
breaks people having time for this kind of thing), course material
from
last millenium, etc.
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