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> Hi Mathias, you are the obvious captain for the digital guys team in Tim
Wynn's competition!
I will just watch it to have fun....
>Perhaps we can get Trimble to sponsor the event?
Please ask Andy Beckerson from Survey Supplies for sponsoring...
Well, technology is not all. The maximum tech-way is: we can arrange you a
system where you have all maps from the area you work scanned and digitalized.
These maps are on a server. You can combine these maps with e.g. road maps
from the Microsoft MapPoint Server to get the roads where can come to field.
All this you get via GPRS connection permanently from the server wherever you
are. By going to work your data are sent back to your institutes server where
your colleagues can continue working with that or feed you with detailed
lab-data. That’s not future.
I have a good overview who is using the mapping & GIS technology: Everybody
does – only most of archaeologists and geologists are very conservative and
debate of comfort zones...
By the way: I have never seen nicer maps than hand drawn. Digital maps are not
really nice the most times and students learn better geology by drawing maps
by hand. But today you have to train students for their professional live and
today the professional live is even more than modern private live
characterized by technology.
But if you don not know what kind of impact this can have on your way of
working and mapping: Try out where the comfort zone is. This is a practical
thing, it’s a tool, and so you have to grab the tool not to debate about.
Mathias
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