List Participants, There is much to admire about MapInfo-L; most of us have our "war stories" to tell about how the list, through Bill Thoen's remarkable efforts, has aided our work and volunteer efforts. Surely the two MapInfo Professional Wish Lists (1997 and 1999) and the seriousness with which they were taken by the MapInfo Professional development team belong in that list of highlights. Directions Magazine (and its founders, in their prior lives) has great admiration both for the Wish List and for MapInfo Corporate's extraordinarily positive responses. That's why we asked Steve Wallace to join us in extending the benefits of the "Wish List" idea, born at MapInfo-L, to products across the entire GIS community. Steve agreed, and today we launch the Directions Wish List Directory as the first phase of implementation of that idea: http://www.directionsmag.com/wishlist.asp We have extended the Wish List idea to all products in GIS. And by placing the 140 wishes of your most recent MapInfo Professional Wish List into SQL tables, we've been able to add a bit of functionality (as well as show the rest of the GIS world how this thing is done!). These new features include: * cookie-based voting with real-time results * real-time updates of submitted wishes * browser-based uploads of images to explicate wishes * sorts by author, date, # of votes, and category * cross-product queries, such as "top 20 wishes" You will note that all MapInfo votes have been set to zero to ensure the integrity of our one-vote-one-wish system. So please, vote on the MapInfo Professional Wish List, add new wish lists of your own, and let us hear how we can make this an even more valuable resource. Regards, Scott Elliott [EMAIL PROTECTED] Steve Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] Directions Magazine http://www.directionsmag.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
