Yes, I can imagine....we would have to wait for all GIS data to come from the government, because no business person in his/her right mind would ever create a commercial data set....
Or we could resort to forced-labor camps in order to get our TIGER files updated....;-) Regards, Chris Christopher DuBuc Sage Software P.S.....Socialism is a ponzi scheme P.P.S....my views are my own... >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: MI-L Re: : Protecting GIS data, reply >Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 16:05:26 EDT > >can you imagine if all gis data were in a common, univeral format that >could >be fully read by any GIS program? That means that the programs would have >to >compete for customers based on functionality alone. The mind boggles. > >Note: this has basically occurred in the drawing programs (illustrator, >draw, >freehand, etc). Each can read each others files easily (even across >platforms). The new versions of the programs are desired because of the >added funtionality they have (has mapinfo ever though of color management - >CMS) as well as being able to read more formats that the other programs >(imagine that). > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. --------------------------------------------------------------------- List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
