Dear all I was interested to read the discussions going on as regards Mapinfo and education/GIS. I've never used ESRI (might explain why I'm out of work at the moment?!) but last year in the Solomons the local Mapinfo User group (small though it maybe) joined in GIS Day and organised a highly successful open day in conjunction with the local Higher Education College to raise awareness of GIS technology and promote courses at the college. ESRI were more than helpful despite (or cynics might say because) the fact no one in the Solomons was using ESRI products. They sent free stuff by courier due to problems getting stuff by conventional post, the resources are now at the college and hopefully will be used. Much of the stuff sent was usable without ESRI products, the sample ARCINFO files we wanted to use as examples were easily converted to Mapinfo and everyone was happy. Obviously World Wide Day is part of marketing but the Mapinfo group in the Solomons certainly benefited. Mick ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
