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From: "Virginia R Hetrick PhD" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "Air Photo Maps, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2013 8:31:12 AM
Subject: On the subject of geospatial databases
Yesterday, I was at an IEEE conference entitled "Rock Stars of Big
Data". The last speaker was from a company that has a logo that's
red, dark yellow, and green. One of his comments was about a user of
a "new technology which has now been around for about 10 years" called
geospatial data. ;~( I helped punch cards for an implementation of a
geospatial database related to the location of individuals with guns
living in King county (the one for which Seattle is the county seat)
as a beginning PhD student in 1970-71.
Sheesh! I did let him know! (Most of you know I'm not a shy person!)
v
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Virginia R. Hetrick, here in sunny California
Email: [log in to unmask]
"There is always hope."
My fave: http://www.washington.edu/cambots/camera1_l.jpg
There's no place like: 34N 8' 25.40", 117W 58' 5.36"
if you can't be at: 48N 7' 4.54" 122W 45' 50.95"
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