O’Reilly on Mapdex
I noticed in my aggregator this morning there was a post about Mapdex and how it has done a wonderful job of indexing web map servers on O’Reilly Radar. Jeremy has noted similar problems with the web map servers on his blog before.
Of course the O’Reilly self promotion is really in full force getting ready for Where 2.0.
…it’s good to see the geospatial industry taking its first steps towards Where 2.0, with the Internet connecting everything.
Apparently us professional GIS types are just beginning to understand how the Internet connects everything and we can thank the good folks at O’Reilly for showing us how to do it. PLEASE!
James:
“O’Reilly” and “self-promotion” in the same sentence? Say it ain’t so!
Personally, I never fail to be entertained by the, um, ‘tone’ of their emails and website copy. Like women’s magazines who play on the shaky self-esteem of their readerships via the non-stop bombardment of unrealistic images of physical beauty, the constant reminders that YOU aren’t working with the coolest scripting language nor the hippest web development framework, let alone the latest open-source OS would be depressing in the fullest if you took even 10% of it to heart.
But face it James, before O’Reilly and Where made spatial cool, we GISers were a bunch of khaki-clad (on a good day) dorks. Now, suddenly, we’re the shock troops for the Next Tech Revolution–talk about a promotion!
Anyway, time to shop for just the right pair of designer non-prescription glasses…
BT
You have to be kidding me. What does this guy even know about GIS. It is all these new guys that have no idea about metadata, not GIS professionals. Nat should research his topics before blogging about how smart the O’Reilly folks are about it.
Then again, he seems to be some sort of Perl programmer so we all know how they love to tell us how smart they are.