Bill:
What I meant by the hammer reference was broader than GIS. I was looking
at it from the perspective of we all do geographic work, whether we be
surveyors, GISers, cartographers, etc. Hence the hammer.....perhaps someone
outisde the box of geography might choose a different hammer, that is a
non-geographic solution.
The only finger dexterity Gordian needed was grasping the hilt of his sword!
tom
At 12:25 PM 4/26/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>At 08:43 AM 4/26/01 -0700, TT wrote:
>>Comes back to the fact that every problem looks like a nail to someone
>>with a hammmer.
>
>Pardon me? Did not Bill Thoen post a message a few days ago asking why
>nobody was doing the obvious--using their GIS to solve the problem? And
>have we not witnessed numerous clever attempts to solve the problem
>without any use of the numerical data? It seems more a case of a
>community reluctant to use its hammers when presented with two boards and
>a bag of nails.
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