GIS Data Organisation for Non-Computer Expertsby Abdulla Gareeb and Steven Byrne, Town Planning Department, Al-Ain, UAE.
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A sometimes neglected but most critical component of all enterprise-wide GIS implimentations are the users. Not the high-profile hi-tech ones but those who spend a lot of time looking at a screen in a Gov't office trying to use all this technology to get something out the other end ... successfully! It would be nice if they all had GIS Ph.Ds but they don't. It would help if you could double their pay.. but this is the real world.
In Al Ain we tried to make their life a little easier (and of course more productive, remember .. this is the real world!) by not asking them to learn a THIRD language.. tekspeek or as it is more commonly known "Whars_the". We openly admit we don't have all the answers but we are willing to share our ideas.
Stephen Thomas Byrne - Profile :
Steven Byrne graduated as an electronics design engineer and began his career in a UK research centre developing hardware and software for real time data collection. Then he moved to a mapping company and developed hardware and software to automate their mapping capture systems and workflow procedures to migrate from manual to digital workflows. In early 80's he prepared several automated mapping system and some GIS implementations for several Middle East government contracts as well as European and American projects. For a major international company he carried out a number of consultancy projects in GIS and IT applications areas in US and UK.
Currently he is engaged by the Government of Abu Dhabi to manage the Computerised Data Management System (CDMS) project in Al Ain.
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