[FRIAM] e mergent: X is the new Y

2007-09-24 Thread Owen Densmore
This came in MISP, a New Mexico related media list, recently, sorta interesting: http://emergentwave.blogspot.com/2007/09/x-is-new-y.html His reference to Seth Godin's Small is the New Big pointed to an interesting set of musings in the business domain. -- Owen

Re: [FRIAM] Distributed Urban Information Systems

2007-09-24 Thread PPARYSKI
Idrisi, a sophisticated and professional GIS program, is available from Clark University, Nick's academic home, for much less than ARC View. Idrisi is much easier to use than ArcView. _www.clarklabs.org/products_ (http://www.clarklabs.org/products) Paul

Re: [FRIAM] Distributed Urban Information Systems

2007-09-24 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
Raymond Parks wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Idrisi, a sophisticated and professional GIS program, is available from Clark University, Nick's academic home, for much less than ARC View. Idrisi is much easier to use than ArcView. However, I am not willing to make a minimum $1250

Re: [FRIAM] Distributed Urban Information Systems

2007-09-24 Thread George Duncan
May I suggest the book by my colleagues Wil Gorr and Kristen Kurland here at Carnegie Mellon. It does make ArcView seem doable. Certainly our students here in public policy find it accessible. See http://www.amazon.com/GIS-Tutorial-Workbook-ArcView-9-0/dp/1589481275 George On 9/24/07, Marcus G.

Re: [FRIAM] Distributed Urban Information Systems

2007-09-24 Thread Stephen Guerin
Thanks for the feedback, so far. Yes, we use ArcView to a limited degree on projects and find the python and COM scripting potentials interesting. The point of my original post is that there's an explosion now of free GIS authoring tools and free mechanisms of GIS / 3D distribution that it's

Re: [FRIAM] Distributed Urban Information Systems

2007-09-24 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
Stephen Guerin wrote: Are we at a similar threshold now with GIS/3D? I haven't worked on GIS stuff lately, but I am interested in technologies for high performance multidimensional query. I've experimented with some products like TimesTen from Oracle, but wish for something like

Re: [FRIAM] Distributed Urban Information Systems

2007-09-24 Thread PPARYSKI
The cost of Idrisi for academics is $675 and a tenth of that for students. Paul ** See what's new at http://www.aol.com FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at

Re: [FRIAM] When is something complex

2007-09-24 Thread Phil Henshaw
Mikhail, Well, I was perhaps including that sort of natural category that is known only by the experiential step of 'entering', like stepping into someone else's shoes and the indefinable change of consciousness that always seems to produce. I was more thinking about distinguishing between the