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Stephanie Brown Trafton of Galt, California threw the discus 212-feet, 5-inches to win the gold medal. In real life Tafton “has worked for Sycamore Environmental Consultants Inc. of Sacramento for the past two years in project management and CAD/GIS analysis.”
Cool!
Trudy Walsh reviewed MapInfo 9.5 in GCN. Walsh makes it clear she’s not a GIS person:
“As a casual map aficionado, I found MapInfo fun to work with after I had mastered a few simple file opening techniques.”
Some of her comments confused me.
“This version of MapInfo has taken great pains to work in an open source way with as many other kinds of files, systems and software as possible. “
“It also gives you access to the Open Geospatial Consortium’s Web Feature Service, a service offered by an international standards consortium that lets clients retrieve and update geospatial data encoded in Geography Markup Language. “
She ended up giving MapInfo 9.5 an “A” for performance, an “A” for features and a “C+” for ease of use. I’m guessing the last score is in comparison to Google Earth, the only other product mentioned. My comparative GIS students who have done projects with MapInfo all pointed to its ease of use as one of its strengths.
Our editors ponder Autodesk’s quarterly expectation-beating revenues. The company reported solid growth around the world even as gas and food costs remain high. Just what is the company doing right and what can we extrapolate to geospatial companies in particular? Also, a look at Autodesk’s recent acquisition of 3D, standards focused company in Germany.
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