Comments on: Neogeography as reinvention of the wheel http://crschmidt.net/blog/156/neogeography-as-reinvention-of-the-wheel/ Ramblings of a GIS Hacker Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:54:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Andrew Turner http://crschmidt.net/blog/156/neogeography-as-reinvention-of-the-wheel/#comment-8446 Andrew Turner Sun, 21 May 2006 15:34:08 +0000 http://crschmidt.net/blog/archives/156/neogeography-as-reinvention-of-the-wheel/#comment-8446 Good point about not "reinventing the wheel" - however, sometimes being "neo-" and not knowing what's been done before, and what people think is not possible, allows you to develop new fields and ideas. And even if you come to the same conclusions ("wow, that IS hard"), you learned the process by which you figured that out. So, a good mix of seeing what's been done before, as well as learning stuff on your own. Of course, this has been the cause of the huge increase in pace (2nd deriv?) of programming development, more people are sharing ideas quicker and therefore able to build on each other's work faster. Good point about not “reinventing the wheel” - however, sometimes being “neo-” and not knowing what’s been done before, and what people think is not possible, allows you to develop new fields and ideas. And even if you come to the same conclusions (”wow, that IS hard”), you learned the process by which you figured that out.

So, a good mix of seeing what’s been done before, as well as learning stuff on your own. Of course, this has been the cause of the huge increase in pace (2nd deriv?) of programming development, more people are sharing ideas quicker and therefore able to build on each other’s work faster.

]]> By: Kjel Anderson http://crschmidt.net/blog/156/neogeography-as-reinvention-of-the-wheel/#comment-8421 Kjel Anderson Fri, 12 May 2006 14:30:21 +0000 http://crschmidt.net/blog/archives/156/neogeography-as-reinvention-of-the-wheel/#comment-8421 I'd be happy to give you a hand with that sort of thing. Working heavily with PostGIS and the like. There is a lot of open source stuff out there, but a lot of it is not pretty. I think qgis/PostGIS will take off once qgis gets to version 1.0. My experience is that processing/finding the data first saves time in the long run for web gis projects. -Kjel I’d be happy to give you a hand with that sort of thing. Working heavily with PostGIS and the like. There is a lot of open source stuff out there, but a lot of it is not pretty. I think qgis/PostGIS will take off once qgis gets to version 1.0. My experience is that processing/finding the data first saves time in the long run for web gis projects.

-Kjel

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