tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19837713.post114344778827747114..comments2024-01-18T02:42:41.480-08:00Comments on transect points: Public Access to Public DataPhil Smallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00841426181734080101noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19837713.post-1144073290485133672006-04-03T07:08:00.000-07:002006-04-03T07:08:00.000-07:00Peter Suber is watching this issue at Welcome to t...Peter Suber is watching this issue at Welcome to the SPARC Open Access Newsletter, issue #96 (April 2, 2006)<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/04-02-06.htm" REL="nofollow">link</A><BR/><BR/>Go about halfway down the page to "Momentum builds for OA to geodata in the UK and EU."Phil Smallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00841426181734080101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19837713.post-1143572253980651922006-03-28T10:57:00.000-08:002006-03-28T10:57:00.000-08:00erwin raisz. I love that style he used. It draws...erwin raisz. I love that style he used. It draws you in personally like no other. One of my favorite maps of Washington State is done in that style. Made just before the War Between the States, it shows where army survey parties were on which days as they investigated potential railroad routes. With those hand drawn ridges and mountains, you really get the flavor for what they were seeing and how it must have been affecting them. Hard to get that with a DEM.Phil Smallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00841426181734080101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19837713.post-1143523224255863172006-03-27T21:20:00.000-08:002006-03-27T21:20:00.000-08:00oh, lawd --a soil scientist lauding gis. i must c...oh, lawd --a soil scientist lauding gis. i must comment!!<BR/>.... a former spouse, who has been employed happily at ESRI for yea these many decades yammers about this every other year or so... how open architecture and internet-shared datasets will render the governmentally sourced updates both useless and unnecessary --and then goes back into his vapid vapor-world of non-explanation about how to get a current project to simply <B><I>print</B></I>. a pox on gis and all its net-schemes. i miss the days of erwin raisz.... couldn't resist the comments 'cause there just aren't that many blogs covering this subject, my sincere apologies if it offends. but do you really think gis has improved the world since the mid-1980s? once a convert, i'm horribly jaded in my old age, unfortunately. had too many mapping projects go over budget, i guess, and too many people from whom i depended to get good data turn out to be --shall we say --underwhelming in their capability to produce the required project. i did better when i updated tiger files in arcedit myself (using PCArcInfo!!) than my last consultant did in producing a simple county map showing currently monitored illegal dump sites.... sigh. the technology gave them room to be sloppy, arrogant, and they didn't even choose decent colors, for pitysake.susannah eaneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15692505605582396364noreply@blogger.com