Ok Steve, prefer non-expert to novice? Hopefully you understood anyway. I am talking about the difference between things like driving a car in 1910 (many had professional drivers), computers in 1960 (also professional drivers), secretaries (professional word processors) in the 1970s (now the boss writes her own letters), licensed topographic engineers vs home-grade GPS in the streets, etc.
______________________________________________ Michael Gould Dept. Information Systems (LSI) Universitat Jaume I, 12071 Castellón, Spain. email: gould (at) lsi.uji.es www.geoinfo.uji.es ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:49:30 +1030 From: stephen white <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Geowanking] Geowanking Digest, Vol 59, Issue 15 To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes On 13/10/2008, at 5:52 PM, michael gould wrote: > ...is that an important characteristic of neogeography (it's not > JUST new > geography) is that it breaks down the barrier between geo-expert and > geo-novice. Only by reducing everyone to novices. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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