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<font size="3" face="Comic Sans MS">David (and Peter?),</font> </p>
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<font size="3" face="Comic Sans MS">Thanks for the pointer. I dont' know that Iagree 100% with the research conclusions, mostly on the grounds that I think a Digital map can be made to be as useful or more useful than a paper version. Forget about the GPS aspect for am minute, or put it into the background. </font> </p>
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<font size="3" face="Comic Sans MS">A digital screen, even a small one, that can track itself with GPS and also provide a display based on directional bearing, would be ahead of the game with regard to paper maps right from the start.</font> </p>
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<font size="3" face="Comic Sans MS">Don't get me wrong here, we print out paper maps for the Fire and Police Dept.s here every year a least, mostly because the digital infrastructure isn't yet in place to handle the previously described Map-enabled GPS.</font> </p>
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<font size="3" face="Comic Sans MS">Basically I'm of the mind that there is a possibilty of having a digital replacement of the paper map, it may or may not have a GPS tied to it, but tying the GPS to a system of this sort as a background helper function, and not a main focus of the process would be more successful as far as usability.</font> </p>
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<font size="3" face="Comic Sans MS">bobb</font> </p>
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>>> "Sampson, David" <David.Sampson@NRCan-RNCan.gc.ca> wrote:<br> </p>
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This was an interesting resource passed around our offices I thought the<br>OSGEO community might appreciate.<br><br>Thanks Peter,<br><br>=======<br><br>Source: Peter Paul, Natural Resources Canada<br><br>A brief discussion from the CBC Radio Program 'Spark' ...<br><br>Spark 115 - May 30 & June 1, 2010<br><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/spark/">http://www.cbc.ca/spark/</a><br><br>Scroll down left menu to reach the title 'Paper Maps vs GPS', then click<br>the audio button to listen to Nora Young's interview with Prof. Toru<br>Ishikawa who has done some usability testing recently at the University<br>of Tokyo.<br><br>--Peter<br><br>===========<br><br>Cheers<br>_______________________________________________<br>Discuss mailing list<br>Discuss@lists.osgeo.org<br><a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss</a><br>
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