Comments on: Geography Awareness Week http://spatiallyadjusted.com/2006/11/13/geography-awareness-week/ Geospatial Technology, Web Mapping and Spatial Services Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:09:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: dylan http://spatiallyadjusted.com/2006/11/13/geography-awareness-week/#comment-3111 Sun, 10 Dec 2006 18:26:16 +0000 http://zhun.pair.com/spatiall/blog/?p=1171#comment-3111 I have conflicting feelings about GIS-day as well: on one hand educating people about the importance of geography is commendable- but seriously why not just call it ‘geography day’? Every time i hear the phrase ‘GIS day’ I think to myself, “oh wouldn’t the world be a better place with an electric drill day, or maybe a relational database management system day, why not a sewing machine day!?”.

Dylan

]]> By: Panoramio’s logo based on OSGeo’s? at James Fee GIS Blog http://spatiallyadjusted.com/2006/11/13/geography-awareness-week/#comment-3110 Sun, 10 Dec 2006 15:47:08 +0000 http://zhun.pair.com/spatiall/blog/?p=1171#comment-3110 [...] Panoramio updated their logo back in October so I’m not sure what the logo looked like before as I can’t find it. Now this could all be a coincidence as the process of developing the logo seems innocuous. One might say it is natural to have a compass with a “geo” site, but the similarity has to make some in the open source community a little disappointed. Of course this is the second time Google Earth has been involved with using a logo similar to OSGeo so maybe deep down everyone just loves it. [...]

]]> By: dailywireless.org » Happy GIS Day! http://spatiallyadjusted.com/2006/11/13/geography-awareness-week/#comment-3109 Thu, 16 Nov 2006 22:37:31 +0000 http://zhun.pair.com/spatiall/blog/?p=1171#comment-3109 [...] Today is GIS Day! [...]

]]> By: a http://spatiallyadjusted.com/2006/11/13/geography-awareness-week/#comment-3108 Tue, 14 Nov 2006 02:16:38 +0000 http://zhun.pair.com/spatiall/blog/?p=1171#comment-3108 I was just joking. Yes, I think you are correct. The techies that I know are very much software agnostic when it come to GIS Day. ESRI deserves alot of credit for that. They have done more than just about anyone to bring about GIS education.
Dangermond deserve the most credit for this as while he is a billionaire, he has been really good about promoting geography and GIS, even without mentioning his own products at times.

However, the marketers (at least the new breed of ESRI marketers in the last 7 years), are like the old Intergraph marketing and sales staff. They don’t really know much about the product, and don’t seem to care to. They just want to see software – bottom line.

]]> By: James Fee http://spatiallyadjusted.com/2006/11/13/geography-awareness-week/#comment-3107 Mon, 13 Nov 2006 18:27:01 +0000 http://zhun.pair.com/spatiall/blog/?p=1171#comment-3107 Well I always considered GIS Day above that. At least talking with the folks at ESRI they seem to put GIS as a whole above ESRI software. I’m sure this is just the marketing team getting involved where they shouldn’t be.

I’ve talked before about ESRI marketing getting in the way of their products.

]]> By: a http://spatiallyadjusted.com/2006/11/13/geography-awareness-week/#comment-3106 Mon, 13 Nov 2006 18:22:12 +0000 http://zhun.pair.com/spatiall/blog/?p=1171#comment-3106

I’m beginning to wonder if this is more of a marketing gimmick

well, that would be a first time for ESRI to doing something like that, huh? ;-)

]]> By: James Fee http://spatiallyadjusted.com/2006/11/13/geography-awareness-week/#comment-3105 Mon, 13 Nov 2006 17:44:36 +0000 http://zhun.pair.com/spatiall/blog/?p=1171#comment-3105 I just got an IM from a reader who says not to forget open source GIS.

I should have mentioned QGIS as a GIS Day solution.

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