Tyler Mitchell

• Login Name: tyler
• Email: tylermitchell@shaw.ca
• Phone: 250-392-3371
• Location: Williams Lake, B.C. CANADA
• Weblog: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/1898

Comments:

• FGS co-founder and development server contact, TWiki admin.
• Interested in Linux, open source software in general.
• Focused on advocating FOSS GIS solutions.

I never understood why more products didn't copy the integrated GUI+command-line of AutoCAD^?. Even now, some ten years after I've stopped using it, I still sorely miss it. Can't remember the name or syntax of a command? Point and click, your command is done, and echoed to the CLI at the bottom for learning and reference. PAMAP, now defuntct, is the only GIS tool I've used which copied that approach. Too bad they never learned how to make it "always hot", necessitating an extra aggravating "point-first-ino-order-to-type" step.

-- MattWilkie - 22 Nov 2004
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