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10-03-2000:A suggestion for Geographers This reader suggests that academic geographers get their work into mainstream, especially the tech”magazines (online or otherwise)
08-23-2000:Kudos for ArcView Article This reader raises additional difficulties associated with budget and training issues.
08-01-2000:Another question on projections A reader asks about coordinate systems, and gets answers from Bill Huber and Steve Wallace
02-10-2000:ArcInfo 8 Not the First An ObjectFX Systems Engineer takes issue with a claim in Daniel Elroi's ArcInfo 8 piece, and Elroi agrees.
01-18-2000:Autodesk Response to Sonnen Series Dr. Joe Astroth, executive vice president for Autodesk GIS Solutions Division, responds to Dave Sonnen's series on the structure of the Spatial Information Market.
01-18-2000:MapInfo Response to Sonnen Series Mark Gunn, Vice President of Marketing at MapInfo, responds to Dave Sonnen's series on the structure of the Spatial Information Market.
01-18-2000:Object/FX Responds to Sonnen Series John Peterson, Vice President of Technology Planning at Object/FX, responds to Dave Sonnen's series on the structure of the Spatial Information Market.
01-18-2000:Oracle's Response to Sonnen Series Dr. Xavier Lopez, at Oracle's Spatial Products/Data Server Division, responds to Dave Sonnen's series on the structure of the Spatial Information Market.
01-18-2000:Smallworld's Response to Sonnen Series Dr. Richard Newell, Chairman of Smallworld plc, responds to Dave Sonnen's series on the structure of the Spatial Information Market.
12-07-1999:Kudos and a Suggestion This reader appreciated the Image Compression Review, and suggests another such product for review.
12-06-1999:MrSID is much better This reader finds an "obvious bias" in our review of image compression technologies
12-01-1999:Geometric Accuracy in Image Compression An image processing specialist offers the results of his investigation of the geometric accuracy of MrSID and ERMapper.
11-30-1999:Can't we all get along? Regarding our image compression review, a reader points out "someone has to win" and urges LizardTech to "take its lumps" and get to the business of making a better product.
10-27-1999:News about GRASS A reader seeks to spark interest in the Open Source GRASS project
10-27-1999:More about the Map Gallery Manifold's Dimitri Rotow comments on Ron Halliday's 10/26 letter, and submits some maps.
10-26-1999:Too Many Big Guys in Map Gallery A reader wants to keep the Map Gallery to people who may not get published so easily
09-01-1999:CounterPoint: ArcView Discussion Lists Bill Huber argues that ArcView-L should fade away, in a response to Barry Zickuhr's letter of yesterday.
09-01-1999:Defending a Poor Policy for a Good List Bill Thoen, "majordomo" of the boisterous MapInfo-L on-line discussion list, has his own criticisms of ESRI's mailing list policy.
08-31-1999:Where is Smallworld? Reed Sims wonders why Smallworld's products are not in the desktop mapping category.
08-31-1999:In Defense of ArcView-L The creator and original moderator of ESRI-sponsored ArcView-L, an internet discussion list, takes us to task for "inaccuracies" in our recent news story.
08-24-1999:Thanks for the Wish Lists Manifold System's product manager tells how Directions Wish Lists are helping to drive product development at Manifold Net.
08-23-1999:Lessons from the Wish List? A reader wonders about the significance of the number of Wishes for MapPoint, vs. other desktop mapping software products.
04-06-1999:MapPoint (and your coverage) is Welcome! Professor Andy Beveridge sees MapPoint as a way to "get beyond the software details to substantive analysis."
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