Letters to the Editor

Michael Johnson

Jan 01, 12:38

Directions Magazine welcomes comments, criticism and ideas from our readers. This letters section provides a forum for these ideas. The staff at Directions Magazine reserves the right to choose which letters are published.

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04-11-2008: AB1978 Withdrawn !!!

03-20-2008: Requesting Examples of GIS Benefit applications

02-26-2008: GE VE discussion

07-27-2007: GIS Mapping and Graphic editing

01-12-2007: Thanks for feedback on Homeless Map

01-11-2007: Comment on LA Homeless Map

01-08-2007: Podcasts won't work for me

11-18-2005: Response on Diaspora Map

11-17-2005: Questioning Diaspora Map

10-07-2005: iPod as map delivery platform

09-08-2005: Never mind the technology, what about new business models?

06-23-2005: Speaking with One Voice

06-20-2005: More than U.S. Data Required

04-08-2005: Google's Maps n Imagery

03-24-2005: More on Relational Theory, Topology

03-24-2005: Kudos to Konrad

03-20-2005: RE: Directions on Technology - March 16, 2005

03-11-2005: Radius Topology & Data Quality

03-11-2005: Response to "A Number of Colors"

03-01-2005: RE: Laser-Scan Overview and ArcGIS Topology

02-28-2005: OASIS Response to Rosen "Boycott" Letter

02-23-2005: Nice changes!

02-18-2005: Framing Google's Move in Mapping

02-18-2005: Technical and Design Issues in Radius/ ArcSDE

02-14-2005: An applicant with a degree has a "shortcut"

02-14-2005: Degrees vs Skills

02-14-2005: A Map!

02-14-2005: On Degree of Necessity

02-03-2005: Thanks for creating the Career Center Profiles!

01-11-2005: Tsunami disastor

11-18-2004: Letter from Microsoft

11-17-2004: Why include letter from Microsoft?

10-28-2004: Mapping & GIS

Comment on Joe Francica's "Where's the Innovation ... in GIS?" editorial

09-01-2004: Jumping GIS

08-18-2004: ESRI Conference 2004

08-11-2004: Raster Data - Poor Second Cousin to Vector No More

07-28-2004: Executive Interview - Jack Pellicci and Xavier Lopez, Oracle Corporation

05-20-2004: Bob Dahl on Location Technology & Business Intelligence

05-20-2004: Susan Kalweit on Location Technology & Business Intelligence

05-20-2004: Letter from Bob Dahl

04-25-2004: Virtual Geography

04-14-2004: SCIP Article

02-04-2004: Great article on Intergraph and MapInfo

01-13-2004: An amusing comment by John Fisher

01-13-2004: Address Management

01-08-2004: AAG president Alexander Murphy's "Awash in a Sea of Geographical Ignorance" addresses a longstanding issue:

11-11-2003: PCI's Response to Sonnen's Article

11-06-2003: Intergraph's Response to Sonnen Article

11-06-2003: Laser-Scan's Response to Sonnen Article

11-06-2003: IONIC's Response to Sonnen's Article

11-06-2003: Autodesk's Resonse to Sonnen Article

11-06-2003: Responding to Mr. Sonnen and Directions

11-06-2003: Responding to Mr. Sonnen and OGC

10-30-2003: The Power of Place-

Response to Hal Reid's Article

10-30-2003: The Power of Place-

Hal Reid's response to Letter to Editor

10-24-2003: Directions on Careers

10-15-2003: Good Work

09-26-2003: LBS and the dumb pipe model

09-25-2003: Article:NSGIC: Champion of All Causes Geospatial

09-24-2003: Re: NSGIC: Champion of All Causes Geospatial

09-17-2003: Geringer a champion?

09-15-2003: Great Monday newsletter

09-10-2003: How A Database Will Greatly Expand The SIM Market

Bull's eye

09-06-2003: Love the Geo bookstore

08-29-2003: Valuable Contribution to GIS

08-28-2003: 911 still not ubiquitous in US

06-17-2003: Oracle - PeopleSoft: A Foreshadowing of what is to come in the GIS Market

06-16-2003: Oracle-PeopleSoft

05-15-2003: Is free data really a bargain?

05-14-2003: Geography of Business

05-13-2003: You Get What You Pay For

05-07-2003: By the Numbers - MapInfo Perspective

05-04-2003: LBS & Wi-Fi

04-08-2003: FOX TV: "Sleazy tabloid?"

04-08-2003: Stick to GIS

04-08-2003: PDA vs. Palm

04-08-2003: Cheap Shot at FOX News

04-08-2003: Swipe at FOX Not Appreciated

04-08-2003: FOX TV: "Sleazy tabloid?" - YES

04-03-2003: Lombardi on LBS

04-02-2003: Technology has come a long way

03-27-2003: Linux Redux

03-26-2003: GIS, Open Source, and Linux

03-26-2003: Linux GIS

03-26-2003: Linux Reflux

03-21-2003: Safe supports Linux

03-20-2003: Linux Based GIS

03-20-2003: Open Source GIS question

03-20-2003: Open Source Article

03-19-2003: Of Turnarounds and Open Source GIS

02-05-2003: Columbia Remembered

02-05-2003: Response - State of Our Union...of GIS

01-31-2003: MapInfo Response to Larry Daniels "GIS in Business – Searching for the Next Big Thing"

01-23-2003: Map of the Week

NO Legend

01-02-2003: Keep up the good work!

01-02-2003: Great new design for website

01-02-2003: A good resource

12-16-2002: MapPoint for Dummies, Winner

12-07-2002: GIS Day 2002

11-25-2002: GIS Day 2002

11-25-2002: Good Job

11-20-2002: GIS Day 2002

11-20-2002: Good Job

11-20-2002: GIS Day 2002

11-12-2002: Directions Magazine - Informative but some format issues remain

11-06-2002: GIS in Elections - Very helpful

11-02-2002: Directions Magazine is a great resource for policy makers

09-23-2002: Letter on "All Demographics are (almost) created equal"

09-20-2002: Reviewer's Response to "Comments on the Manifold 5.00 Product Review"

09-18-2002: Comments on the Manifold 5.00 Product Review

09-18-2002: Letters on Terrorism

09-12-2002: 9-11 Remembered

09-12-2002: Thank you.

09-11-2002: Response to concerns about objectivity regarding the article entitled All Demographics Are (Almost) Created Equal

08-05-2002: Reply to "Women in GIS" Letter

08-02-2002: Quick note from Dr. David Huff

07-26-2002: 1990 Census Information for Mortgage Use

07-24-2002: Women In GIS or People In GIS

06-28-2002: Carol Bartz Interview

06-28-2002: Carol Bartz Interview-Reply

06-21-2002: SVG, GIS article

06-10-2002: GIS & Public Health

05-28-2002: SVG & GIS

George Seff's reply to Dr. Gould

05-22-2002: Map of the Week - Electric Power Atlas from Platts

Joe address his concerns

05-22-2002: City of Hope, Arkansas

05-21-2002: Map of the Week - Electric Power Atlas from Platts

Concerns

05-20-2002: SVG & GIS

A reply to George Seff's article

04-12-2002: Educating rural towns about GIS

04-12-2002: A challenge-Educating rural towns about GIS

04-08-2002: A happy reader

04-04-2002: Wednesday Digest

Small towns

04-03-2002: Small communities and GIS systems.

04-03-2002: Maps and Propaganda

04-03-2002: Latest Issue

Maps

04-03-2002: GIS maps of "Palestine

04-01-2002: Monday's Gazette

He likes it and here is why.

02-27-2002: Business Partner Series

Responses to Business Partner Final

02-18-2002: Comments on business partner article (Part 1)

This reader disagrees with Joe's conclusions.

02-18-2002: Comments on business partner article (Part 1)

Jack Dangermond writes how ESRI is growing.

09-17-2001: Response to Women in GIS

This reader believes Women In GIS is like Take Our Daughters to Work Day….

08-31-2001: Response to Women in GIS editorial

This readers sees our collective diversity brings hope…

08-30-2001: Attention Software Developers and Vendors Supporting SDTS Raster Profile

This reader comments on SDTS raster data

08-10-2001: Good idea...poor execution

This reader thinks USGS had the right vision but executed poorly.

08-09-2001: Paying for the data twice

This reader has no problem paying..

08-02-2001: This was an inside deal

This reader speaks about the slow download speeds

08-01-2001: Concerned about single data serving format and vendor

This reader concerned about single data

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

07-21-2000: Kudos for Reprojecting Article

This reader appreciates Bill Huber's primer on geographic projections.

07-12-2000: ArcView Challenges

Insightful comments on ArcView's changes from this GIS team manager

07-11-2000: More on "Telematics"

Mr. Gould has the last word

07-11-2000: PC ArcInfo Lives

Two readers point out that PC ArcInfo is alive and well

07-10-2000: "Telematics" or not?

A European reader disputes our terminology.

06-13-2000: Map Server Suggestions Needed

This reader needs tips on prototyping the serving of European street maps

03-30-2000: Why not me?

AGS's senior demographer envies Wallace his Census "long form."

02-11-2000: ESRI Comments on Elroi's ArcInfo Piece

Director of Products clarifies terminology, emphasizes Unix commitment

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

12-06-1999: Criticism of Image Compression Review

A reader whose service business is based on MrSID has some criticisms of our approach.

12-06-1999: Thanks for the Image Compression Review

A reader who "dabbles" with imagery finds our review helpful.

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

10-25-1999: On-line Cartography Discussion List

A reader alerts us to a new on-line discussion list.

10-25-1999: More on ESRI's ArcView discussion list

Ted Florence, Executive VP at Avenza, weighs in on the moderation policy at the ArcView-L online discussion list.

09-02-1999: More on the ArcView Discussion List

Jeff Cole wonders about the "editorial" policy of ESRI's ArcView-L Internet discussion list.

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.

08-23-1999: Internet Mapping with GeoObjects

06-28-1999: Re: Half a Million and Counting

Steve Wallace argues that ArcExplorer is likely not that popular.

06-22-1999: More about "Rules of Thumb"

This reader liked Jeff Cole's article, and has further suggestions.

06-16-1999: Rules of Thumb ... as on the level as the Tower of Pisa

Bill Thoen argues "there's more to the component story than is described here"

06-10-1999: Re: Rules of Thumb for Mapping Component Customers