<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">Dear Tyler and carto list<br><br>First of all I want to introduce myself. I am Gabriel Asato, geologist and GIS Manager of the Geological Survey of Argentina and I have involved in GIS programming for map production for more than a decade using AML. For more than 5 years I have been working with python hoping that ESRI finally will adopt it as a reasonable GIS programming environment (it is seems that will finally be adopted in ArcGIS 9.4!!!)<br><br>I have read in a last post you are asking if this diagram it make any sense.<br><br>Well it will depend of what the people of this project think what it is a cartographic library-application-etc.<br><br>I remembered that a few years ago ESRI people were so worry because most of the cartographer in the world do not considered GIS as
an adequate system for map production but either a nice system for geographic data management and analysis.<br><br>With few words and strictly speaking most of the cartographers think GIS do not produce maps!!!! <br><br>This is a very shocking statement specially to non cartographer who have been working with GIS for years!!!<br><br>If this list think that GIS can produce maps, the diagram looks reasonable.<br><br>But in the contrary if you think GIS or current software packages cannot cover the cartographers necessities, well I think we can discuss and share ideas.<br><br>My best wishes to everybody!!!<br><div> </div>Gabriel Asato<br>Unidad Sensores Remotos y SIG<br>Servicio Geológico Minero Argentino<br>(SEGEMAR)<br>Av. Julio A. Roca 651 p 8 of 1<br>Cdad. Autónoma de Buenos Aires<br>ARGENTINA<br><br><div>tel 54-11-4349-3158/26<br>fax 54-11-4349-3287<div><br></div></div></div><br>
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