On Wed, 3 May 2000, Portolan Geomatics Inc wrote:
> Hello listers, hope I won't offend the hardcore MI users here...anyone
> seen Ms. Roswell lately? :)
Yikes. I am missed. Cool.
Some things I've been thinking about lately, while not managing to
correspond with mapinfo-l:
- Whether to ask MapInfo for a copy of MapXtreme, or ESRI for a copy of
ArcIMS, or MapOjectsIMS. I intend to create a non-profit web site of
bicycle routes. I was already turned down by DeLorme. They have a
speedy-gonzales Eartha web mapping product, but apparently they use such
optimized data (like RouteIMS) that you can't import custom data.
I want whichever solution is easier for the programmer to implement, and
whichever is faster, in that order of priority, I guess, but both would be
nice.
Which is a better product?
- I'm planning to use Flash with MAPublisher and Illustrator to implement
some web mapping. I was very impressed by the Baltimore Sun's look at
Handgun legislation. Click on the United States graphic on the right-hand
lower side of http://www.sunspot.net/news/special/guns/
I think this is beautifully implemented, and faster, and more responsive
than ANY GIS-on-the-web solution I've ever seen before. I intend to create
an animation of the spread of Lyme Disease.
- A couple of months ago I created http://hello.to/healthgeo, a web site
of links devoted to Health Geographics
Well, that's what's up with me on the mapping, and maps-on-the-web front.
Thanks for noticing my "absence."
Regards,
Margie "Still-a-MapInfo-User-after-all-these-years" Roswell
P.S. My campus has a site license for ESRI products. I do feel a tidal
wave push in that direction, especially because of effective marketing by
ESRI. I mean, at the local GIS conference last week, I was carrying a bag
with ESRI's name on it. MapInfo should, indeed, take a few tips from ESRI,
on both user-interface, and marketing fronts.
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Marjorie Roswell, Spatial Analyst
UMBC Center for Health Program Development and Management
1000 Hilltop Circle Fx: (410)455-6850
Baltimore, MD 21250 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ph: (410)455-6802 http://umbc.edu/~roswell/mipage.html
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