Neogeography 101: Word Association
Question:
‘Genre Books’ is to ‘Writer’
as
‘Web Maps’ is to …?
Choices:
[a] iPhone [...since the buzz is about it- the Paris Hilton of the technorati]
[b] Paris Hilton [...since the buzz is about her- the iPhone of the glitterati]
[c] Geographer [...since ESRI Press said so]
[d] Programmer/Developer
Answer:
If you answered [c], you have spent a lot of time around ESRI-championed web maps with 8 direction tags, a dogged insistence on not exploiting browser cache and a ridiculous north arrow on every map- never mind that so far no one has turned a browser upside down.
–π
Related:
A Rose by Any Other Name
Web Mapping
The New Yorker
