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Excerpts from letters and comments
from the previous week (or so) appear on Thursdays. Follow the links
provided to read the full comments.
We welcome your praise and criticism via our comments tools provided
along with articles on the website, or via e-mail.
Two readers comment on the FBI's GIS status.
"Holy cow! I assumed that someone like the FBI would have a much more mature, centralized data sharing model than most other Federal agencies. ..."
- Steve G, USFS
"... The biggest reason we have not seen the integration of GIS across Federal Agencies is because it is a complex process to architect a robust role based client server architecture with ESRI software alone. Many Agencies simply do not have time to make the technology work. ..."
- Simon, GIS for a Wholistic World
Podcast: Two Newsworthy Maps, One Gets All the Glory
One of the maps discussed was the "Global Map of Human Impacts to Marine Ecosystems." One of the map's authors wrote to let us know that the article about the map that was published in Science is available.
"The paper is now available for all by visiting our website. The text 'Science, February 15, 2008' should lead you directly to the paper."
- Shaun Walbridge, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
Autodesk Positions Itself for 2008 and Beyond
Scott at Autodesk Labs wanted to let us know that working with the multi-touch gets easier with practice.
"... With more practice, we find that getting the right touch for the multi-touch device becomes second nature."
- Scott Sheppard, Autodesk
Podcast: Search and the Google Effect Two Years Later
A listener wrote with his opinion about why GE and VE are popular.
"... I think that the popularity of GE and VE is that they are "plugged" to the Web. It is not only fun to explore the p***t but it is even more fun to discover what the Web has to say about this geography via tagged videos and photos, Yellow Pages business listings, etc. I'm not sure that an unplugged GE would be that fun. ..."
- Luc Vaillancourt, BALIZ-MEDIA.com
Private vs. Publicly funded Base Maps - Is Google Earth a Public Trust?
Numerous readers wrote in to comment on this All Points Blog post. A reader offered a federal perspective.
"... I would have been inclined to agree, however VE is not free to government agencies. I am a federal government contractor. I created a VE mashup using Microsoft's code they freely distributed on the Web. ..."
- Jerri Daniels, GISP, CFM, GIS Project Manager, G.E.C., Inc.
