Open Thread
The long holiday weekend means that we are heading out to visit relatives in western Colorado.
Seems like the perfect excuse to have an open thread. See you guys next week.
James Fee GIS Blog
Geospatial Technology, Web Mapping and Spatial Services
wow… Google buys GeoEye. What does this mean for Microsoft?
Sarah Palin looks like Tina Fey. But you knew that…
Grand Junction or Steamboat Springs?
I’m betting on Paonia…
Is not that called Twitter instead of open thread?
We should vote the ugliest GIS Mapping Websites of the world. Nerdy, man!
Anyone done much with that portable GIS download (had a bundle of open source packages, like grass, postgis, postgresql, ec, that you put on a USB flash drive, and can run without installing).
They have started a google group.
Just interested as its something ive got sitting on my pen drive, but not really had time to start playing around with the packages yet.
Hey Simon i havent tried that, but ill look into it.
Manifold, Manifold, Manifold! Just sayin.
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Since last week and this are political weeks I have a question: Are GIS professionals mostly Democrats, Republicans, Independents or something else? I’ve always wondered about that.
I’d say Republican since it is mostly a ‘hard science’.
I think the ESRI folks are Republican, the Manifold folks are Democrats and the open source folks are Libertarians.
What about those crazy MapInfo guys?
John Birch Society for sure.
An open thread with only 14 comments and someone even mentioned Manifold and that started nothing? James, I think you lost your touch
Why oh why did Microsoft take away “save as DBF” in Excel 2007?!?
Hey KoS? What happened to UGA? Pac-10 team ranked ahead of you?
GIS, while fascinating, is neither hard nor science. And, FWIW, my college chemistry and physics professors were conservative and liberal. Being a good scientist is orthogonal to being a good tax-cutter or a good tree-hugger.
GIS seems to me to be not so much pro-GOP as it is pro-authority and pro-establishment. The GOP has, with interruptions in the 70s and 90s, been the establishment since 1968 or so.
From this post on GIS Jobs Clearinghouse http://tinyurl.com/6k7k3z it looks like Obama’s campaign drinks ESRI flavored kool-aid.
James….USC beat up on a ACC team. We beat up on a 1-AA team.
Those are the pitfalls of playinga 1-AA team and next week a MAC team.
I dis-like it when we schedule “puffy” teams for those easy wins.
KoS
So visiting ASU this year could be the “upgrading” of the schedule that Georgia wants?
I know ASU has decided to handle their out of conference schedule this way. One cream puff (NAU this year), one mid major (UNLV) and one top team (Georgia). It doesn’t always work out that way because last year we played Colorado as our “top team”, but when we scheduled it, they were a top team.
To be honest, if Georgia wanted to “upgrade” their schedule, they would only schedule SEC teams!
Who needs those weakling other conferences. We are being nice to the PAC-10, throwing them a bone.
Another thing about the rankings, it helped USC having their game on national TV vs only locally. More poll voters were able to see USC vs UGA.
KoS