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- From: Robert Jacobson <cyberoid@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
- Subject: Re: GIS User interfaces
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- There are commonalities among these professions. They are all working
- in space, from mental models. They are all working at representing or
- altering the external world. The subjects of their labor are differ-
- ent, but the functions they perform upon these subjects -- location,
- alteration, movement, obliteration, time-effects -- are generic across
- most categories.
-
- Why not begin defining the interface along these lines? In fact, it
- has been the historical evolution of GIS, from demographers and carto-
- graphers to other professions, that has created the illusion of separa-
- tion. Separation makes not only general technological solutions but
- also marketing these solutions awfully tough.
-
- Bob Jacobson
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