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In the rapidly changing world of GIS technology, it is important to pause occasionally and look at how far it has come–where we have been–in order to better appreciate where we are. In my previous series post about my career path, I mentioned that my first job out of college was with Markhurd Aerial Surveys doing manual cartography for a large defense mapping project.
A client with some old technology-Zip disks, a Zip drive, and a Windows XP machine- asked us to extract the files and compare to the current data. What follows is a general overview of how we “turned back the clock”, detailing the process used to knock the dust off of the old technology and bring it to life in late 2020.
