Hello listers, hope I won't offend the hardcore MI users here...anyone
seen Ms. Roswell lately? :)
Very rarely can we complete our more complicated mapping projects solely
in one software. As a perfectionist to a fault one of my biggest pet
peeves is not accomplishing a task as quickly as possible so I will use
any and every software at my disposal to get what I need done - MapInfo,
ArcView, Manifold, Corel, etc. etc.
Our company has a limited budget as well and we only upgrade when we
feel the software offers enough of an improvement to make the purchase
worthwhile or if it does something that none of our other softwares can
do - that we need!. I always find that if a software expense is less
than the extra working expenses incurred trying to get a task done in a
software that is not equipped to do it, the purchase is already a
winner. A few of you might remember awhile back I was trying to select
all my duplicate polygons and delete them (including looking at 50+
columns of data and except for the first instance). I got some good tips
on how to do it in MapInfo but not only was it difficult to wrap one's
head around it was painfully slow and inefficient. Manifold gave me what
I wanted on the same computer in under a minute and I had my final
dataset a few minutes later. (That's just one example, there are lots of
things I wouldn't use Manifold for (sorry Dimitri!) and for those of you
who are saying "What's Manifold?" I'll save you some time, check it out
at www.manifold.net)
And I'm sure there are a few of you out there that have other softwares
that you rarely use because some of your more stubborn clients want you
to convert your creations to whatever software they have. One of our
clients knows that our cartographic products are of a higher quality in
MapInfo but we also get paid to translate our final product into another
software as best we can because that in what they have.
Thanks,
Ron
Ron Halliday, Cartographer
Portolan Geomatics (also in Calgary, AB!)
http://members.home.net/portolan/
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