On 3 Jul 2008, at 23:53, stephen white wrote: > On 04/07/2008, at 3:54 PM, SteveC wrote: >> Or without actually doing anything better. > > That is true. > >> I know this is geowanking but it's just so incredibly cheap to take >> pot shots at things like mashups in 2008 when people were doing that > > I want to move to the next stage beyond map mash-ups, and part of that > process is recognising the problems that map mash-ups do not solve.
We're all in the gutter right, but geocommons actually built something. > An existing problem was highlighted by Feynman, who observed that the > education process presents the material without the connections. The > ability to directly perceive (with false colour overlays, etc) data in > context is a possible solution. So I've had a Feynman poster on my wall for nearly a decade, so I know that he didn't sit around asking questions all the time. > So I want to talk about approaches that could solve large numbers of > problems that are not currently being solved with the existing > approaches. That is very pragmatic, and does not have any relevance to > academics who blow hot air for tenure. No talking about something is total wank, pragmatism is actually doing something. Go back to your Feynman and him and Goodstein when Feynman read The Double Helix and he made Goodstein stay up all night and read it, and when he had finished he just held up his notepad with 'DISREGARD' on it. The point being you should forget what everyone thinks and actually do something. Best Steve _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
