Margie, we linked to your public health GIS site from ours at
http://www.rpmconsulting.com/PublicHealth.html
As for the map server question, ArcIMS is the latest and greatest, but if
all the geodata are in MapInfo format and I was used to the MapInfo
programming environment I might stick with that.
As for ESRI out-doing MapInfo on marketing, I think ESRI simply understands
the needs of the educational user better and addresses them better. There
are also other segments where ESRI excels (e.g. public health, government,
transportation). But though my firm works predominantly with ESRI products,
I've always felt MapInfo had far superior marketing to business users, and
that ArcView is still not as productive as MapInfo or Atlas GIS for business
use. But this is changing.
To me, it's all good. It would be nice if we had one GIS format already,
though -- or if at least the major products were all thoroughly
interoperable on format. Atlas 4.0 is actually closest to this, as it can
import and export MIF, SHP, BNA and AGF.
-- Steve
----- Original Message -----
From: "Marjorie Roswell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Portolan Geomatics Inc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, May 06, 2000 1:06 PM
Subject: Re: MI AND AV in the same office?
> On Wed, 3 May 2000, Portolan Geomatics Inc wrote:
>
> > Hello listers, hope I won't offend the hardcore MI users here...anyone
> > seen Ms. Roswell lately? :)
>
>
> Yikes. I am missed. Cool.
>
> Some things I've been thinking about lately, while not managing to
> correspond with mapinfo-l:
>
> - Whether to ask MapInfo for a copy of MapXtreme, or ESRI for a copy of
> ArcIMS, or MapOjectsIMS. I intend to create a non-profit web site of
> bicycle routes. I was already turned down by DeLorme. They have a
> speedy-gonzales Eartha web mapping product, but apparently they use such
> optimized data (like RouteIMS) that you can't import custom data.
>
> I want whichever solution is easier for the programmer to implement, and
> whichever is faster, in that order of priority, I guess, but both would be
> nice.
>
> Which is a better product?
>
> - I'm planning to use Flash with MAPublisher and Illustrator to implement
> some web mapping. I was very impressed by the Baltimore Sun's look at
> Handgun legislation. Click on the United States graphic on the right-hand
> lower side of http://www.sunspot.net/news/special/guns/
>
> I think this is beautifully implemented, and faster, and more responsive
> than ANY GIS-on-the-web solution I've ever seen before. I intend to create
> an animation of the spread of Lyme Disease.
>
> - A couple of months ago I created http://hello.to/healthgeo, a web site
> of links devoted to Health Geographics
>
> Well, that's what's up with me on the mapping, and maps-on-the-web front.
> Thanks for noticing my "absence."
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Margie "Still-a-MapInfo-User-after-all-these-years" Roswell
>
>
> P.S. My campus has a site license for ESRI products. I do feel a tidal
> wave push in that direction, especially because of effective marketing by
> ESRI. I mean, at the local GIS conference last week, I was carrying a bag
> with ESRI's name on it. MapInfo should, indeed, take a few tips from ESRI,
> on both user-interface, and marketing fronts.
>
>
> _________________________________________________________
> Marjorie Roswell, Spatial Analyst
> UMBC Center for Health Program Development and Management
> 1000 Hilltop Circle Fx: (410)455-6850
> Baltimore, MD 21250 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Ph: (410)455-6802 http://umbc.edu/~roswell/mipage.html
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