10 Years in Mobile GIS

Well there you have it. 10 years have gone by and I hardly even noticed it. I have been developing, consulting and a whole host of other tasks in the Mobile GIS world now for 10 years!

Back on January 5th 1998 when I joined Conic Systems Ltd. little did I know that I would be still in this industry.

Times have changed in the GIS industry over the past 10 years. I started developing in VB3 and C++ (can’t even remember what rev number!) using an in-house graphics/GIS engine which still to this day has some great ideas in it. It was the precursor to MapObjects and still has users.

Smallworld was dominant in the utility market at that time and the link between Smallworld and Conic took up the most of my time.

That was working life until, in very quick succession, Tadpole bought Conic and we moved from a proprietary engine to using ArcObjects. I never delved into Avenue programming and have only seen ArcView 3.x about 3 times in my whole life!

Now we are in an age of server based GIS with mobile devices syncing when they can.

I happened upon the GIS industry and am glad that I did.

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