can you imagine if all gis data were in a common, univeral format that could be fully read by any GIS program? That means that the programs would have to compete for customers based on functionality alone. The mind boggles.
Note: this has basically occurred in the drawing programs (illustrator, draw, freehand, etc). Each can read each others files easily (even across platforms). The new versions of the programs are desired because of the added funtionality they have (has mapinfo ever though of color management - CMS) as well as being able to read more formats that the other programs (imagine that). --------------------------------------------------------------------- List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
