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I think it's time to introduce myself:
German educated Cartography engineer (FH Karlsruhe), worked in Germany and Canada (ITMB, Vancouver, B.C.). Since nearly 12 years I live and work in Mexico, the first 10 years I was head of the cartographic and geoinfo division at Quimera Editores, and since October 2008 I'm working at a university as project manager and development team leader for the official georeferenced populated places and postal code data base (yeah, believe it, there's none, even if some dubious companies are trying to sell something like this).
For almost 18 years I managed to work almost exclusively on Mac (cost quite a bit of convincing, though...), only other OS was Linux (Ubuntu rules!). Since I'm busy with the postal codes I had to cross over to the "dark side" (Windoze
). Client (i.e. Correos de México) thought it would be better to use ArcGIS and MapGuide, although I had proposed Open Source (GRASS, Quantum GIS and MapServer).I'm an old FreeHand fan (still prefer it over Illustrator, though I used Illy since version 5.5); MAPublisher user anyway (just beats any GIS software on design possibilities - hate those automated styles in ArcGIS and MapInfo).
So, here I am, having read in the background quite a bit, sometimes being tempted to answer, but thought it would be better to introduce myself first before starting. I hope to have an 'illustrating' time here and to be able to add something constructive to the forum.
Saludos,
Roland
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