As Gil Castle, founder and CEO of Castle Consulting in SanFrancisco, explains, "Anything that can appear on a map can beencoded into a computer and compared to anything on any other map,using longitude-latitude coordinates.
Spalding, a civil engineer, was smitten. In fact, he was sotaken with the technology that he quit his job in the landdevelopment division of the engineering firm to start his own GISconsulting company, emGISt Inc. He's never looked back--and keepspushing the technology forward.
Just recently, he transformed a GIS data blog he started in 2003to Find GIS , aFlorida-based GIS data resource site. The site includes GISsources, GIS contacts, GIS data download sites and FTP sites forall 67 counties and 418 cities, towns and villages and links forthe GIS divisions of multiple government agencies statewide.
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