Friday, February 5. 2010

Hey Ontario, the new Economic Dev Mapping Site is Wanting

That's the point of James Murray's article in the Thunder Bay paper taking aim at a Bing Maps based tool aimed at helping those looking to open businesses in the province find possible locations. The app is called SelectOntario and the provincial website states: "Ontario is now the first province in Canada to implement a state-of-the-art geographic information system (GIS) tool for the purposes of investment attraction."

I don't think he "against" Bing Maps per say, but rather the ease of use and number of clicks to an answer. The site, so far as I can tell, is built on Rolta's OnPoint (originally from Orion, which Rolta acquired in recent years). I was unable to run the app on my Mac in Safari.

The best news about this article: user expectations for online mapping/GIS are high, as they should be.

- Net News Ledger

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Microsoft at 08:00 | Comments (5) | Trackbacks (0) |

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He should have an issue - what about all of the Canadian jobs that this application has displaced since it is housed in the USA?

The USA has a buy American policy and this should be raised so Canadians are sending IT / spatial jobs south of the border

#1 Murray on 2010-02-05 17:50 (Reply)

I don't follow. What is housed in the US? And, can you indicate how you know this?

#2 Adena Schutzberg (Link) on 2010-02-07 12:41 (Reply)

It was built in the US - but really its just an application of already built software. And yes - it is clunky and yes - it could have been built in canada.

#3 Watcher on 2010-02-08 07:50 (Reply)

Actually - it was built in canada

#4 Watcher on 2010-02-08 07:57 (Reply)

I don't much care where it was built, as long as it can help business in this province

#5 Laptop GPS World (Link) on 2010-02-08 17:06 (Reply)

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