Well...This one's a tuffie. Old guys like me get all goosie and gigglie
when a young friend departs.
I was in Troy in 1992 when Scott unveiled his $995 Wessex product that was
every bit as good as the $00,000 U.S. Streets being sold by MapInfo.
Because he happened to do it at the MapInfo Reseller conference, his
ejection from the group was as dramatic as the boys from Troy could make it.
Kind of like those old Western movies where the offending officer was
stripped of his buttons with a sword and marched out the gate of the fort to
Indian territory.
He and Jane built Wessex to a dominant data position in the industry. No
BS...this is TIGER data translated to a format you can use without some
interim aggravation. And it worked. There was no logical sense in our
devising TIGER translations when Wessex cost less than the effort. No copy
protection...we trust you to pay us if you trusted us to buy our product.
Business Location Research bought them and were themselves bought by
Geographic Data Technology. Happened in a very short time frame and
resulted in a quick consolidation of all major street data under GDT, a.k.a.
HR Polk. Scott shared with me the gentle behavior of the BLR reps that came
to the office with locksmiths to shut down the Winnetka Wessex operation.
He and Jane moved on to different Directions. Scott has now taken that
unmapped journey we all face. If he were able to communicate back, he'd
show us how to do it at less than 10% of the going rate.
Good trip, Good Buddy.
John Haynes
Director
Geodata Consultants, Inc.
1-800-838-6661
www.geodataconsult.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "SFBCIC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 11:22 PM
Subject: MI-L Directions Mag Publisher Passes Away
> Scott Elliott, publisher of Directions Magazine, passed away Wednesday,
> January 10, 2001 after a year-long struggle with lung cancer.
>
> Scott was a vanguard in the GIS community, having developed affordable
data
> as the founder of Wessex (which was then purchased by GDT), and his vision
> of a free, on-line mapping and demographics publication with an
information
> repository.
>
> Funeral services are scheduled for 11 AM, Saturday, January 13, 2001, at
the
> Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Winneka, IL. Scott was 52 years old. He is
> survived by his wife, Jane, and his stepson, Johnny.
>
> We will miss him.
>
>
>
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