Some of you may have heard the ESRI catchphrase “geography connects people.” Well, nowhere is it more true than in the world of Geographic Information Systems.
As promised, we will now revisit the fateful question that launched this epic: “How much does a copy of ArcView cost?” And the answer (to no one’s surprise) is … it depends.
This is the fifth and final installment of the series I began a year ago on how to develop a new GIS. In the preceding parts of the saga, we covered the importance of the data, staffing and equipment. We are now just about ready to put it all together, right? Well, maybe. But we may have given short shrift to another equally important element: training.
