Dear Reader,
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We start our second year off with our first review, and it's a zinger.  Steve Wallace delivers a thorough comparison of the two leading image compression products, MrSID and ECW, at <a href="/features.asp?featureID=27">http://www.directionsmag.com/features.asp?featureID=27</a>
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Autodesk is in the news with a major field computing announcement, in conjunction with Oracle, at <a href="/news.asp?NewsID=48">http://www.directionsmag.com/news.asp?NewsID=48</a>
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At Women in GIS (<a href="/womeningis.asp">http://www.directionsmag.com/womeningis.asp</a>) we interview Liza Casey, Director of Enterprise GIS for the City of Philadelphia.
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Anthony Quartararo and Mary Lynn Krohn contribute a detailed look at the issue of Cost of Quality in Enterprise GIS; see their paper at <a href="/article.asp?ArticleID=44">http://www.directionsmag.com/article.asp?ArticleID=44</a>
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We've added over 80 new entries to the Free Tools Directory in the past three weeks.  Here's a list, sorted by date, with the most recent first: <a href="/tools/Default.asp?a=alltools&id=&orderby=Dateposted+DESC&Page=1&Pagesize=5">http://www.directionsmag.com/tools/Default.asp?a=alltools&id=&orderby=Dateposted+DESC&Page=1&Pagesize=5</a>  And be sure to check out what's new in the Free GIS Data Center at <a href="/datacenter/">http://www.directionsmag.com/datacenter/</a>
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Thanks for reading Directions Magazine, and be sure to tell a friend!
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Scott Elliott<br>
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