[DUG] TUMONZ SDK beta program - general GUI design

[Phil Scadden]

> As searches have become more powerful in recent years so I would think
> that the most frequent way of locating a location would be a text
> search.

Not sure if I am being confused with Phil Middlemass, the TUMONZ
developer, but anyway...

You might be right - that may be the commonest way to find you
way on a map. However, its probably not the modus operandi of GIS users
like myself. Zooming on a large scale map work for me perhaps because
of day in/ day out use of map. I am also not usually looking at map to
find a location so much as to find out about things in a map context. 

So if have a GIS would you buy TUMONZ? Hmm. Frankly, only got it because
it provided a cheapskate way to access a layer (property owner) that expense
to buy and maintain for a GIS.

However, GIS have a well deserved reputation for steep learning curves and
consequently a lot of work has gone into usability. I wouldn't throw away the
hard-earned lessons in the modern GIS interface lightly.

That maplet looked pretty good to me Phil.
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