MartyConnelly
martyconnelly at shaw.ca
Mon Sep 15 21:58:08 CDT 2003
I took a GIS course, a couple of years back at U Vic to keep my hand in. It was all Unix MapSys. I am still surprised how many people don't think out of the box with GIS. I once had to find out how many people had moved in a year in a municipality surrounded by Ottawa. So I did it with address matching and maps showing the actual moves; took about a month to do. I came up with a figure of 30%. The urban planners started berating me about the figure being way too high. So I showed them the figures I got from Bell Canada. The number of new residential phone connects in the year was 33% in that municipality. At that time there were no cell phones. One phone call to Bell could have given them a ball park figure rather than using GIS. John B. wrote: >If you haven't worked in GIS for awhile I think you'de be pleasantly >surprised how far they've come. > >I was a GIS Project Manager in the late 90's just as Intergraph made a huge >switch in philosphy. They adapted Windows NT as their OS of choice and >jumped from Unix to NT, Eventually, after they migrated their customer base, >they got out of the Unix OS(Clipper) business all together, although they do >support using other OS based DBs via networks. > >There are basically two main companies involved in GIS now, Intergraph >(which is publicly held) and ESRI (which is privately owned). Intergraph has >a lot of other companies using their technologies to target specfic >tasks/audiences. ESRI has a lot of companies writing add-ons or supplements >to their software. > >It's an amazing set of technologies! > > > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com >>[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of MartyConnelly >>Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2003 10:02 PM >>To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving >>Subject: Re: [AccessD] Info: Free Windows Fortran 77 Compiler >> >> >>Cadastral from french cadastre meaning to register. Hence a Land >>registry system. >> >>However don't go near the Quebec Land Registry based on old >>Seigneurial land titles everything was measured in perches or some >>other obscure 17'th century measurement. >> >> Yup I worked on two GIS cadastral mapping systems linked to land >>assessment databases >>one in Ottawa with a Honeywell 6000 GCOS mainframe and one PDP 11/70 >>Intergraph system in Calgary. >> >>Gustav Brock wrote: >> >> >> >>>Hi Jim >>> >>>Sounds impressive. But cadastral? Even my trusted "American Heritage >>>Dictionary" (bought in Olympia 1986 for USD 4.95) had to give up on >>>this. Google, however, revealed this page among others: >>> >>> http://www.co.blm.gov/cadastral/cadhome.htm >>> >>>Is that what your project was about? >>> >>>/gustav >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>>Wow, that dates things...I was pretty decent Fortran programmer >>>> >>>> >>back in the >> >> >>>>late seventies, early eighties...I build a complete cadastral AutoCAD >>>>application that translated coordinates from Clarke's 1886 >>>> >>>> >>global positional >> >> >>>>formula spheroid to conic and mecaider map projections, on an Intergraph >>>>system, running on an old PDP11-70 VAX. I was a lot brighter then and >>>>remember little about it except that one period missing in a >>>> >>>> >>the code could >> >> >>>>result in 100 plus pages of errors. I hope they have improved the error >>>>handling routines. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>>>Thanks for the heads up Marty and maybe I will take a stroll down memory >>>>lane. (Even though it is a bit over-grown.) >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>>>Jim >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>>>-----Original Message----- >>>>From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com >>>>[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of MartyConnelly >>>>Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2003 5:09 PM >>>>To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving >>>>Subject: [AccessD] Info: Free Windows Fortran 77 Compiler >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>>I was looking at the Fortran95.Net compiler on this site when I came >>>>across this free for personal use Fortran 77 compiler. a bit dated >>>>but... Still useable with some of the good stat-math packs that are >>>>floating around on the net. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>>>http://www.salfordsoftware.co.uk/compilers/ftn77pe/index.shtml >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>_______________________________________________ >>>AccessD mailing list >>>AccessD at databaseadvisors.com >>>http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd >>>Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>_______________________________________________ >>AccessD mailing list >>AccessD at databaseadvisors.com >>http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd >>Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >> >> >> >> > > >_______________________________________________ >AccessD mailing list >AccessD at databaseadvisors.com >http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd >Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > >