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Several readers provided comments.
Mike Mahaffie (Delaware) chimes in the piece on the NSGIC blog.
"... I'm surprised, given your blogging on the wildfires, that you didn't explicitly make the connection between the Google Maps collaborative mapping and its potential disaster management. ..."
- Jason Birch
"... Now if Google enabled adding/editing attributes and downloading the data edits, we'd have something REALLY useful! ..."
- Neil MacGaffey, MassGIS
Adena Schutzberg notes this Google resource providing details on how to create a multi-authored Google Map: The Google Maps API folks offer: "Creating a User-Contributed Map with PHP and Google Spreadsheets" via the Google Maps API Blog.
Podcast: ESRI to Go Agile; GeoBiz follows IT in M&A
A reader offers a cartoon commentary on agile technology.
"Hmmm...that's interesting. Best comment I can make on this is located here."
- Archie Belany, Grey Owl Geomatics
Is a Geographic Appliance in Your Future?
A Vexcel employee provides further information about the Virtual Earth Appliance.
"The Vexcel website does contain additional information about the Virtual Earth Appliance on this page."
- Marty Marra, Vexcel Corporation
