Newb GIS Blogger
Thank you Antanas for starting this blog. I know it has been a very slow start. I hope it can take on a life of its own and becomes a suitable forum for discussing "GIS development in New Jersey and the region.". You have been very gracious in opening up your forum and encouraging me to give blogging a try.
My name is Ron. I have worked in New Jersey for over 15 years and graduated with a GIS degree. I want to foster communication within the regional GIS community. What's new? What do you want to know? Who is doing what? Where is it? Can I get that? How is that going to effect me/us?
I am going to start by asking. "In a perfect world, what GIS data set would the New Jersey GIS community like to have (example: statewide 2 foot contours)?"
Ron
My name is Ron. I have worked in New Jersey for over 15 years and graduated with a GIS degree. I want to foster communication within the regional GIS community. What's new? What do you want to know? Who is doing what? Where is it? Can I get that? How is that going to effect me/us?
I am going to start by asking. "In a perfect world, what GIS data set would the New Jersey GIS community like to have (example: statewide 2 foot contours)?"
Ron
Ron - As an opener, I think it would be wonderful if 1) All data created by public and private entities would be available for either very inexpensive purchase for free. The DEP and NJGIN have done a very good job so far, and ESRI has some stuff as well, but I feel that knowledge should be shared among all organizations as long as proper credit is given for where the data came from.
On a side note, it seems to me that consulting firms shouldn't keep the data used for their clients maps to themselves, the clients paid for the work, they should get the whole bundle, and the consulting firms should trust that their data will be used appropriately and only by their clients.
-Alison
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While I cannot, of course, speak for all GIS consulting firms, I can say that in all GIS consulting that I have done in New Jersey since 1994, for three different firms, and now for my own, the data has ALWAYS been the property of the client, to use and/or distribute as they wish.
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Atanas,
In that case, I don't think that all people are aware of that - I know of at least one instance where I was told that a consulting firm was being used again 'because they made our last maps' with the understanding being that they did not have access to the data that had been used in the mxds, so they didn't want to go somewhere else, for fear that they would have to have most of their work redone if they went with another organization. Maybe they misunderstood something somewhere, but it sounded as though they'd recieved the maps but not the data.
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i appreciate your commnets since they are focused and proffesional.
I am Geomatics Engineer and would wish to start a GIS company. i wish to request all learned friends in GIS proffesion for some advice.
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