If there is another PowerOn Users Exchange this year at the Smallworld Americas Users Conference, it will be interesting to see who the members of the technical team will be that are present to listen to customer feedback.Collective is tax deductible and starts paying for itself in less than 2 months.įrom formation to taxes, you get all support you need for one affordable monthly price. And that may include outsourcing product development to countries where they don't have to pay people as much money. I have no idea if development was actually moved to India but I suspect that GE may follow outsourcing models that many profit-driven organizations follow.

Based on their updated profiles, it seems that of the 10 names I recognized: 3 stated their current position to be at Integraph, 4 stated they were at GE and 4 stated that they were with other companies. But using my connections on LinkedIn I was able to find the names of many of the PowerOn development team members that I knew in Denver. I was not able to find a press release from GE mentioning any PowerOn layoffs. I would prefer not to deal in rumors, so I did a bit of research on-line. I, too, have heard rumors of members of the PowerOn development team in Denver being laid off. But this article has got me thinking about how I can take the next step beyond technology and start learning more about Geography to understand my world better and then also contribute to its common good. it puts food on my family's table and is something that is also technically challenging and rewarding. I do actually seem myself as a bit of a clerk (or consultant to clerks) that manages data for others. In contrast, advances in GIS alone are likely to cast us as clerks handling data for the ecologists, political scientists, economists, and other current leaders in these topics His call is for geographers to reassert themselves into the public consciousness so that they can make important contributions for the common good.īecause of my daily work with GIS technologies, I always fancied myself a bit of a geographer. And then he points out that Geography was purged from the major USA Universities after World War II. He writes about how during the 1st and 2nd World Wars, geographers were an important part of preparing for peace after the war. But if you are interested in Geography and GIS in general, you go to where the information is)ĭobson writes of the role of Geography largely in the United States of America. If you are at all interested in Geography (or wonder what it is) this article is definitely worth reading. Dobson's article ' Bring Back Geography!' resonated with me.

So because I am still interested in GIS and Geography, Jerome E. (I would be interested to read how you are using the Smallworld tools to understand non-utility geographic issues.) I know that Smallworld can be used for GIS analysis but the product development has not emphasized that at all. GE seems to have made a decision not to market the Smallworld Core Technology as a GIS but rather to present it as a network management suite of tools. So you might ask: 'if you are intrigued by Geography and GIS why are you working with Smallworld?'. I enjoy the technical nature of GIS very much but have always been intrigued by the geographic questions that the GIS technologies strive to address. One thing I regret about my undergraduate studies is that I took no geography courses.

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