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Forbes on ESRI
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on Tuesday May 30, @06:30AM
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from the giants-on-the-playground dept.
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geognerd writes "Forbes Magazine introduces ESRI, GIS, and Jack Dangermond to the world. The article says "Dangermond is a bit dismissive of Google's efforts, viewing its mash-ups as so much eye candy." However, he acknowledges that Google has made more people aware of GIS. The article has a few vague references to ArcGIS Explorer and also covers ESRI's growth and a bit about its financials."
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The Geography Matters blog summarizes an article by Jack Dangermond, ESRI's president, on GIS as a new medium and the GeoWeb. From the article: "GIS is being used to model the physical and cultural knowledge of our world, breaking it down into components and subsystems, providing us with systematic knowledge, an integrative framework, analytic methods, and intuitive visualization. GIS is attractive to humans because it responds to both the cognitive as well as intuitive dimensions of understanding. GIS creates order and meaning. It is helping us define interconnections and interdependencies, and it provides a broad understanding of nature and human ecology."
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