[ale] idiocy rant.

[George Allen]

I believe they are often wearing blinders to think only 'ARCGIS'
whenever they think maps or geographic data. I don't believe most
bureaucracies have made the jump from closed GIS systems that require
a dedated GIS person to generate each map/point/query to the web
systems with databases, standard APIs, and easily created mashups that
we are used to.

Then again- I'd prefer my organization to use LaTeX and svn/git for
collaboration instead of Word and Outlook. You get full history,
version control, branches, but that's never going to happen...

On 9/23/09, Neal Rhodes <neal at mnopltd.com> wrote:
> Perhaps I'm a hopeless geek, but I'd think that an important function
> for governmental agencies charged with public order would be for them to
> publish an accurate and up-to-date map of road closures.   In a form
> that the average individual could actually use to figure out how in the
> heck to get anywhere.
>
> The DOT telling me that SR 70 North at MM 33.42  in Fulton is: Other:
> SLOW MOVING WATER until tomorrow tells me precisely......nothing.
>
> Nobody in our state government can understand that what people need is a
> Google map with pins at all the spots where you can't drive a car no
> mo'?     And a Garmin GPX file with the same?      It ain't that hard if
> you geo-code the closings.   If I actually had a need to leave the
> office now I'd be almost annoyed enough to do it myself.
>

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