From rhoskins@home.com Fri Apr 16 17:25:15 1999 Received: from mxu3.u.washington.edu (mxu3.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.7]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.02/8.9.3+UW99.01) with ESMTP id RAA18358 for ; Fri, 16 Apr 1999 17:25:15 -0700 Received: from ha1.rdc1.wa.home.com (siteadm@ha1.rdc1.wa.home.com [24.0.2.66]) by mxu3.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.02/8.9.3+UW99.01) with ESMTP id RAA07145 for ; Fri, 16 Apr 1999 17:25:14 -0700 Received: from c501552a ([24.5.121.123]) by ha1.rdc1.wa.home.com (Netscape Mail Server v2.02) with SMTP id AAA26633 for ; Fri, 16 Apr 1999 17:25:13 -0700 Message-ID: <00d401be8868$c0f04260$7b790518@olmpi1.wa.home.com> From: "Richard E. Hoskins" To: Subject: http://www.fgdc.gov/ Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 17:25:10 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_00D1_01BE882E.1446A5C0" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_00D1_01BE882E.1446A5C0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable http://www.fgdc.gov/ is a site for the not faint hearted. Here GIS and = beaucracy meet head on. More standards and goals and objectives than you = can shake a breaucracy Projection at. Maps and .... more. If you are = aspiring to be a real GISer you have to face this crowd someday. = Otherwise I recommend you delegate it to someone else. For sure, what = they are doing is in fact a big deal. I recommend that you know about it = (but keep your distance).=20 Dick Hoskins ------=_NextPart_000_00D1_01BE882E.1446A5C0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

http://www.fgdc.gov/ is a site = for the not=20 faint hearted. Here GIS and beaucracy meet head on. More standards and = goals and=20 objectives than you can shake a breaucracy Projection at. Maps and .... = more. If=20 you are aspiring to be a real GISer you have to face this crowd someday. = Otherwise I recommend you delegate it to someone else. For sure, = what=20 they are doing is in fact a big deal. I recommend that you know about it = (but=20 keep your distance).

Dick Hoskins

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