I’ve been trying to focus on getting much more in-depth with GIS tools. Our project is preparing to deploy an ArcGIS solution from ESRI in the next year or so but there are so many other options out there (including some neat stuff like Google Earth’s whiz-bang servers). It’s neat stuff and right now ESRI is kind of dominating the market — mainly because their the only ones that offer such a huge enterprise-level system. Most other GIS tools have been developed for specific applications and for specific clients.
It’s a neat area to work in…