>Changing data that you will be receiving in order to make a map work is >incorrect procedure. >Creating and marketing a tool you don't understand the use of is also >incorrect procedure. >Just my 2 cents.
I have two cents, too: Once you've actually been in "the software business" you'll know that obtaining samples of every possible end-user creative effort to mangle a standard format is exceptionally difficult and one is often forced into modification of what you actually have just to test what might be. A couple of weeks ago there was a thread here re "quoted price does not include testing" ... something at which I (apparently naively) was totally flabbergasted as I had believed for the longest time that "testing" was always included in the price of on-spec software. News flash: if you are putting a product out on the market for "anyone" to license and use, it had better be tested or you will be in deep doo-doo. What you can't test for want of Real World Data *will* become a "service pack" or "maintenance release." These are expensive so you do whatever you can to reduce the number of same. Walk a mile in our shoes, Mrs. H. Shelfware development is a world away from doing on-spec work for a single client. Michael C. Mattias Tal Systems Inc. Racine WI [email protected] ------------------------------------ ... Please use the following Message Identifiers as your subject prefix: <SALES>, <JOBS>, <LIST>, <TECH>, <MISC>, <EVENT>, <OFF-TOPIC> Job postings are welcome, but for job postings or requests for work: <JOBS> IS REQUIRED in the subject line as a prefix.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
