> you often see bars which are across the water which are two orders of magnitude father away than the bar across the street because you have to go around the water.
So the problem is that your map search is based on a lat/lon index and not a Manhattan Distance? Have you thought of asking someone you know from the area? I find personal references to be more reliable than most information fed to me by a computer. Lending libraries - the very fact that you have to list 6 startups answers > the question. None of them have found a model which works or has scaled > yet. I'm not going to go log in to all 6 :-) > Maybe the reason that there are 6 startups that haven't scaled is because the problem isn't technological - it's social. By definition, almost anything that makes you use your computer more is going to prevent the social structures that facilitate neighborhood lending. This weekend I built a rock wall in front of my house. In the process of building that wall and spending three days in my front yard I also helped one neighbor move a kiln from her basement to the basement of another neighbor. Yet another neighbor climbed up on my roof to help me fix some siding that blew off and discussed the hole in his shingled that he could only see from my roof. And another neighbor, who I know does landscaping work, lent me a sledge hammer and chisel so I can break up my rocks. In the process of that transaction, I offered to help him drop a pear tree into a hole he dug (another neighbor was there as well). No digital technology was used in any of these transactions. They were all social by nature. > My point was that there are these problems which affect people every day > that we, "the experts" are supposed to be solving. I don't think a format > is going to fix anything. Very happy to see arguments as to where it can > help any of these, or other, practical problems. > I don't see how any of these "problems" need to be "fixed" by technology. Just get out and talk to people. However, the fact that it's such a PITA to move data between GIS platforms is a technological problem. Sure, just talking about it doesn't solve the technological problem but it does help make sure people know that it still is a problem. -Eric
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