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planetgs.com (75)
www.thegisforum.com (71)
www.spatialsciences.org.au (32)
www.bloglines.com (27)
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Wednesday, April 1. 2009
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Old Poll, New Poll
A little over a month ago we asked: What's your biggest "people" challenge in doing your geo-related job? We received 80 responses, with the leading challenge being hiring the right or enough people.
42% Hiring the right/enough people
25% Something else
19% Lack of professionalism
15% "Getting along"
Next up: If available free, how would you use background data provided to your desktop GIS from the cloud (as ESRI is doing in a future release with Microsoft's Virtual Earth)?
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Wednesday, February 25. 2009
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Old Poll, New Poll
Last month we asked: Which is your biggest challenge in doing your geo-related job?
There were 98 responses:
People 49%
Data 26%
Software/API/Language 16%
Hardware 7%
Something else 5%
Let's follow up on the "people" challenges with this weeks poll: What's your biggest "people" challenge in doing your geo-related job? Vote on the lower right hand site of the blog homepage.
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Wednesday, January 7. 2009
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Old Poll, New Poll
Back in November (yes it's been a while!) we asked how important is it that a job candidate be familiar with more than one GIS product/platform. I'm please to report 82% of the 28 respondents put it in the required/valuable category. (Note that students! And, to be clear, this need not mean you pay someone to teach you a package. There are some great tutorials and free and open source software to explore!)
58% - Valuable; it's nice to have.
25% - Required; I won't hire the person.
18% - Not important; I don't even ask about it.
Next up: Which is your biggest challenge in doing your geo-related job? Vote in the lower right hand corner of the main page.
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Tuesday, November 25. 2008
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Old Poll, New Poll
Update: Actually set the new poll this time! Oops!
--- original post 11/19/098 ------------
A month ago we asked: What single factor besides pure functionality most influences your selection of a geospatial software app? With just 13 votes it's hard to take the results too seriously, but here they are:
Ease of Use/Interface - 62%
Data format support - 16%
Support for standards - 16%
Something else - 8%
Speed - 0%
Cross platform support - 0%
Extensibility - 0%
Print/output capability - 0%
On to the next poll: How important is it that a job candidate be familiar with more than one GIS product/platform? Vote in the lower right hand side of our main page.
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Tuesday, October 21. 2008
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Old Poll, New Poll
A few weeks back I did a very self-serving poll trying to get what/how many geo blogs readers of this blog frequent. My real goal: to figure out if I should "dupe" stories well covered elsewhere. The good news, even with a small sample of 28, is that most of you keep an eye on other blogs.
Results:
My regular geoblog reading habits best match:
65% A few select geoblogs
22% Planet Geospatial blogs plus other geoblogs
8% Just this blog
8% Planet Geospatial blogs
0% Read no geoblogs regularly
Next up: What single factor besides pure functionality most influences your selection of a geospatial software app?
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Tuesday, September 23. 2008
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Old Poll, New Poll
A few week back we asked for your reaction to Cloud Computing. 83 people responded.
34% Don't know what it is.
26% Will be significant in geospatial.
23% Is not yet stable/secure enough for geospatial.
17% Is just a lot of hype.
2% No opinion.
I suppose that explains the very high hit rate for this post.
Next up: your blog reading habits. Vote on the lower right hand side of our main page.





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