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Comments for James Fee GIS Bloghttp://www.spatiallyadjusted.com/2008/08/05/breaking-the-tribe-mentality/#comment-35572 [Comments for James Fee GIS Blog] VIEWERS: These are the stakeholders or the citizens or the consumers who need access to GIS data, they don’t care where it came from, who produced it, or whether a convex hull is more suitable than a buffer - they just want an answer to their question. They make up 89% of GIS users (not including the casual users of Google Maps and maps.live.com).

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Off the Map - Official Blog of fortiusone[Off the Map - Official Blog of fortiusone] The Professional vs. the Amateur: Thoughts on the ESRI UC: The GIS companies are producing more consumer friendly products and the GeoWeb companies are producing more robust functionality for the exact things they are labeled as not doing (data management, analysis, workflow etc.).

Comments for James Fee GIS Bloghttp://www.spatiallyadjusted.com/2008/08/05/breaking-the-tribe-mentality/#comment-35554 [Comments for James Fee GIS Blog] Comment on Breaking the Tribe Mentality by Sean Gorman: The point I believe is that we use the terms amateur and professional as inappropriate labels. Just as we use the term neotard, paleotard, ogctard inappropriately.

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James Fee GIS Bloghttp://feeds.spatiallyadjusted.com/~r/SpatiallyAdjusted/~3/356717919/ [James Fee GIS Blog] Breaking the Tribe Mentality: Sean Gorman has a very thought provocative piece on his blog this morning. The Professional vs. the Amateur: Thoughts on the ESRI UC should be read by everyone. I’ve notice that our tribe mentality has really caused great divisions in ...

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