I have previously stated that GIS involves unleashing your inner geospatial titan
Paul Crisp BT Syntegra Innovation Place Delta Bank Road Newcastle NE11 9DJ Tel 0191 461 4522 Fax 0191 460 1987 -----Original Message----- From: Will Mitchell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 22 March 2004 16:08 To: 'B. Thoen'; 'MapInfo-L' Subject: RE: MI-L Web Services (for Grandma) Hi GIS friends, I was on the phone with my 90 year old grandmother this weekend, and as has happened before, she basically said "Ohhhhh, I'm soooo proud of you. I just wish I understood what you did." So I thought I'd issue a challenge: Who can best describe GIS to a 90 year old? Of course there are many terms that should not be used, and Bill's extract below contains many of them. I would add GIS itself as a no-no term. Winning entries will be posted to mitchellgeo.com (which should have a bold new look in a couple of weeks). Thanks. Will Mitchell Mitchell Geographics, Inc. 496 Congress St Portland, ME 04101 ph 207.879.7769 fx 207.253.5756 <http://www.mitchellgeo.com> www.mitchellgeo.com -----Original Message----- From: B. Thoen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 10:20 AM To: MapInfo-L Subject: Re: MI-L Web Services Ye gods! Who wrote that press release? That's the most impressive example of polysyllabicly gilded prose I've seen in a while! "Interoperability" really gets a workout too. "...working collaboratively to extend and "ruggedize" existing and draft OpenGIS standards. The goal is a robust and complete interoperability framework for implementation within a multi-vendor enterprise and to achieve interoperability between enterprises for geoprocessing..." - Bill On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, David Langley wrote: > Following up on a previous discussion, and to those of you that are > interested, it looks like the next release of the OGC web services (WMS, WFS > etc) will be based around the HTTP SOAP programming architecture making them > hopefully easier to integrating into your client applications via importing > of the WSDL file. > > http://www.directionsmag.com/press.releases/?duty=Show <http://www.directionsmag.com/press.releases/?duty=Show&id=8935> &id=8935 > or > http://www.opengis.org/press/?page=pressrelease <http://www.opengis.org/press/?page=pressrelease&view=20040318OWS2PR> &view=20040318OWS2PR > > Cheers, > > Dave > > David P. Langley > Director of Programming Services > > Mapping Solutions, LLC > 4660 S. Hagadorn Rd. > Suite 120 > East Lansing, MI 48823 > USA > > Voice: (+1) 517-332-7735 > Cell: (+1) 517-719-6359 > Fax: (+1) 517-332-1329 > > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > SMS: 5177196359 (@page.nextel.com) > > Visit our website: www.mappingsolutions.com > > Need cheap GDT and NavTech street-level data for North America and Europe? > Check out Map-In-A-Box at www.mapinabox.com > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Message number: 10985 > --------------------------------------------------------------------- List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message number: 10986 ******************************************************************** This email may contain information which is privileged or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient of this email, please notify the sender immediately and delete it without reading, copying, storing, forwarding or disclosing its contents to any other person Thank you Check us out at http://www.btsyntegra.com ********************************************************************
