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ewolf
Joined: 15 Dec 2005
Posts: 4
Location: Chattanooga, TN
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 Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 8:56 am Post subject: You might be a GIS professional if: |
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You might be a GIS professional if:
- you hear the words spatial and enterprise and do not think of Star Trek
- your idea of curling up with a good book is with a Rand McNally Street Atlas
- you assume that the people around you are yawning because they are tired
- you are the only person in your organization that realizes the term 'GIS system' contains a redundancy
- you actually care about what datum was used
- FGDC metadata does not put you to sleep
- you find yourself critiquing Mapquest maps
- you see an address and wonder how that codes into the centerline
- you notice inconsistent signage on streets
- you can navigate a southbound trip without turning the map upside down
- you are not amazed that a dispatcher knows where your cell phone call is coming from
- the Map Store is your favorite stop at the mall
- when told to turn 'East' you know which way to go
- you can make the wrong turn and get back on the correct route without anyone else knowing it wasn¹t just part of the trip
- you can give directions without mentioning McDonalds or Starbucks
- you laugh at the folks climbing Mt. Elbert (highest point in Colorado - over 14,000 feet) who say "we're almost there, the GPS says it's just few hundred feet away"
- you find errors on the AAA travel atlas and try to get a refund
- you get excited thinking about the next census! |
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spaghettidata
Joined: 22 Jan 2007
Posts: 2
Location: VA, USA
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| Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 11:57 pm Post subject: Or a GIS Student if: |
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- you hear "spaghetti" and shudder
- you know all about the vector-raster wars without being an artist
- you know enough about the above to argue a member of either side to distraction
- you still choose a side in the above two once you're done infuriating the said member with devil's advocacy
- you can see an architecture student's program for the first time and make him say "Cool! How'd you do that?" in the same sitting
- you know most of the tips and tricks in just about all of ESRI's Arc line, and still believe you found a better program in VTerrain
- you and your fellow interns in both geography and geology have to politely bite your tongues when your boss comes in raving about this brand new activity called "geocaching"
- your flatmates have taken to wearing shirts denouncing MapQuest
- when you come across a 'scape you can't visualize in a sci-fi novel, you take to the Web to see if someone has created it in shapefile yet
- you feel a deep kinship with the astronomy students-- people mistake their major, too
- you look at a Rorschach (ch.sp.) and see impaired streams
- your CS friends come to you for coding advice
- you daydream about tracking freight containers when waiting at a railroad crossing
- you can't suspend your disbelief during a movie/tv show because you're wondering why the high-tech super government headquarters is not tracking the villain when s/he is using something that would make it SO easy
- you're surprised to find that you can understand a telecommunications engineer when he's grousing about the many and varied ways to realign cellular phone signals that have been bouncing around mountains
- you look at your boss's brand new paper area map and see the 1626 "New and Accvrat Map of the World" you have on your shower curtain
- nobody thinks it odd that you have a "New and Accvrat Map of the World" on the shower curtain in your bathroom
- you have programmed a method to determine most of the potential formations for the map in National Geographic's "Global Pursuit" out of curiousity
- while patiently mounting map tacks and flags on your boss's paper map, you're mentally going through the steps needed to automate the entire process in ArcIMS
- something about "Hello, World" files is terribly amusing
- your friends accuse you of illogicality and you automatically ask them which type of logic they mean
Not all of it is funny, but all of it is true. |
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wegngis
Joined: 09 Nov 2007
Posts: 1
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| Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 12:55 pm Post subject: |
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- You spend time explaining to your friends that Google Earth is not GIS
- When posting your maps on a wall, you refuse to put thumbtacks through them so you come up with elaborate alternatives to poking them
- You tell people that printed maps are like Gremlins; Don't get them wet, and don't expose them to light for long periods of time. |
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