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Computer-aided GIS & this computer-aided blog

2012 January 20
by Jw

Whilst preparing for a recent presentation, I came across the following quote:

“Computer-aided communication is less formal then other writing and in fact is more like talking…”

CH Stevens, in Liberation Management (Tom Peters), feb 1994. – underlining my Jw.

And then: I started scanning some (old) documents from college (I do hope this is all legal ….). Again noted that back in those days everything turned computer-aided: computer-aided cartography (CAC), computer-aided mapping (CAM), computer-aided reporting (CAR), computer-aided-design (CAD). In today’s world, that can be seen an awkward dichotomy. Which part of mapping is not computer-aided? CAD seems to survive somehow in being computer-aided, so there must be some non-computer aided design around.

 

And GIS (geographic information system) clearly is way beyond the computer aided vision of our world. – Just a Friday afternoon thought. On this computer-aided blog.

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