Gis is ...another way for making money ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 1:41 PM Subject: RE: MI-L Web Services (for Grandma)
Simple - I make maps. Jerry Bratton -----Original Message----- From: Kent Hargesheimer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 10:40 AM To: 'Will Mitchell'; 'B. Thoen'; 'MapInfo-L' Subject: RE: MI-L Web Services (for Grandma) I'll take a shot...this exercise can probably help a lot of industry people better explain GIS to their grandparents, parents, or young kids. GIS is computer mapping of geographic information which you can alter and analyze to support macro-level social, environmental, and economic decisions. Think of it as a 'microscope' to study our world, but it is used to look at a macro level (i.e. a country, state, metro region, county) instead. Another Grandma quote after trying to explain GIS, Micromarketing, and Geodemographic Segmentation: "Well, I think that is just wonderful!" Kent Hargesheimer SRC - Extending the Reach of Micromarketing 1400 Flemming House Street Wake Forest, NC 27587 tel 919-562-5177 fax 919-562-5178 http://www.extendthereach.com SRC in Action: www.DemographicsNow.com -----Original Message----- From: Will Mitchell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 11:08 AM 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&id=8935 > or > http://www.opengis.org/press/?page=pressrelease&view=20040318OWS2PR > > Cheers, > > Dave > > David P. Langley > Director of Programming Services > > Mapping Solutions, LLC > 4660 S. 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