Greetings

Thank you so much for all your good wishes and I pray and wish same for you in 2007.

Best Regards

Akhilesh Akhouri
The Centre for GIS
Doha - Qatar

-----Original Message-----
From: gis-cafe@yahoogroups.com [mailto:gis-cafe@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Makram Murad
Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 7:23 PM
To: gis-cafe@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [GIS-Cafe] Greetings

Wishing all subscribers to gis-caf? and their families and loved ones a happy holiday season whether it be Christmas, Al-Adh'ha Eid or any other. Most imprortantly is my wish for all mankind to live in peace with one another regardless of differences in their religious beliefs or culture or race. May 2007 bring everyone together in harmony.

Makram Murad-al-shaikh
M.S. Cartography;?B.Sc. Civil engineering?
ESRI Instructor since 1993 - Educational Services
ESRI, Inc.
380 New York St. M3S07
Redlands CA 92373, USA
Tel. 909-793-2853 ext. 2016
http://www.esri.com/training/index.html
What is GIS? http://www.gis.com/

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Thanks Makram for your sweet wishes,

I also wish all the list, and all the world a Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and Happy Adha. May we see a better world in 2007, with our GIS business booming, and helping support development goals, less famine, better resources management, and less conflicts and bloodshed in the world.

Don't forget to make your GIS resolutions for 2007;-)

Regards,

Dr. Ahmed Wagih
GIS/RS Consultant

----- Original Message ----
From: Makram Murad
To: gis-cafe@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 7:23:00 PM
Subject: [GIS-Cafe] Greetings

Wishing all subscribers to gis-caf? and their families and loved ones a happy holiday season whether it be Christmas, Al-Adh'ha Eid or any other. Most imprortantly is my wish for all mankind to live in peace with one another regardless of differences in their religious beliefs or culture or race. May 2007 bring everyone together in harmony.

Makram Murad-al-shaikh
M.S. Cartography; B.Sc. Civil engineering
ESRI Instructor since 1993 - Educational Services
ESRI, Inc.
380 New York St. M3S07
Redlands CA 92373, USA
Tel. 909-793-2853 ext. 2016
http://www.esri.com/training/index.html
What is GIS? http://www.gis.com/

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Thank you Makram for your kind wishes. May I take this opportunity to wish
all GIS-Caf? members very happy and blessed Xmas, Eid Al-Adha and New Year
2007.

Regards to all,

Nadeem Hashem

_____

From: gis-cafe@yahoogroups.com [mailto:gis-cafe@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
Of Makram Murad
Sent: 20 December 2006 19:23
To: gis-cafe@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [GIS-Cafe] Greetings

Wishing all subscribers to gis-caf? and their families and loved ones a
happy holiday season whether it be Christmas, Al-Adh'ha Eid or any other.
Most imprortantly is my wish for all mankind to live in peace with one
another regardless of differences in their religious beliefs or culture or
race. May 2007 bring everyone together in harmony.

Makram Murad-al-shaikh
M.S. Cartography; B.Sc. Civil engineering
ESRI Instructor since 1993 - Educational Services
ESRI, Inc.
380 New York St. M3S07
Redlands CA 92373, USA
Tel. 909-793-2853 ext. 2016
http://www.esri.
com/training/index.html
What is GIS? http://www.gis. com/

[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

dear friends

Happy Eid and happy new year to all of you

with my best wishes and regards

your's

mohammed zohny

GIS Consultant

Cybermak Information System ( Intergraph kuwait)

mzohny.cybermak@makharafi.net

moh_zohny@hotmail.com

+965 788 4716

Nadeem Hashem wrote:
Thank you Makram for your kind wishes. May I take this opportunity to wish
all GIS-Caf? members very happy and blessed Xmas, Eid Al-Adha and New Year
2007.

Regards to all,

Nadeem Hashem

_____

From: gis-cafe@yahoogroups.com [mailto:gis-cafe@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
Of Makram Murad
Sent: 20 December 2006 19:23
To: gis-cafe@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [GIS-Cafe] Greetings

Wishing all subscribers to gis-caf? and their families and loved ones a
happy holiday season whether it be Christmas, Al-Adh'ha Eid or any other.
Most imprortantly is my wish for all mankind to live in peace with one
another regardless of differences in their religious beliefs or culture or
race. May 2007 bring everyone together in harmony.

Makram Murad-al-shaikh
M.S. Cartography; B.Sc. Civil engineering
ESRI Instructor since 1993 - Educational Services
ESRI, Inc.
380 New York St. M3S07
Redlands CA 92373, USA
Tel. 909-793-2853 ext. 2016
http://www.esri.
com/training/index.html
What is GIS? http://www.gis. com/

[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

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Dear Huda;
First of greetings to you from Ghazi Qussous in Jordan.
I will look for you in some of my old files as I might have old docs that
will help you. Anyway you should know that GIS did not start really as GIS.
It started as an extention of other fields such as photogrammetry and
digital mapping. The people working in these field starting automizing
their work using computers in the 80's and while doing the maps in digital
form they felt slowly the need to add attributes to this digital data, and
slowly this became towards the use of GIS as we know it.
The first Digital mapping conference was held in Neiroubi 1967 if a I
remember well. My Self I started with Digital mapping and followed the
trend until now. The Canadians were developped in using GIS for the Hotels
I saw an application myself during a conference in 1985. The system was
installed in the Grand Hotel and helped me a lot to find places arounds.
The first issue of a GIS review was 1981 or 1982 I have to look for it. It
has also a mention about the evolution.
Leading companies at the time 1985 for example. Intergraph, Syscan, and
Arcinfo and some others. We had atender once in the instituion where I used
to work before...The Jordanian geographic center. One site I visited in
1985 was the KODAMS the digital mapping site og Intergraph in the
municipality of Kuwait.

I hope this will help you for know I will more for you. By the I used to
teach this chapter when I was conducting GIS courses.

Regards
Ghazi Qussous
GIS Advisor for the GTZ

Thanks for the input, Ghazi

One correction for now regarding ESRI - ArcInfo.
Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (ESRI) is the company.
ArcInfo was the software produced by ESRI then.

Makram Murad-al-shaikh
Senior instructor - ESRI Educational Services

-----Original Message-----
From:Ghazi_Qussous@mwi.gov.jo [mailto:Ghazi_Qussous@mwi.gov.jo]
Sent:Tuesday, February 22, 2000 12:22 AM
To:gis-cafe@egroups.com
Cc:gis-cafe@egroups.com
Subject:[GIS-Cafe] Re: Greetings

Dear Huda;
First of greetings to you from Ghazi Qussous in Jordan.
I will look for you in some of my old files as I might have old docs that
will help you. Anyway you should know that GIS did not start really as GIS.
It started as an extention of other fields such as photogrammetry and
digital mapping. The people working in these field starting automizing
their work using computers in the 80's and while doing the maps in digital
form they felt slowly the need to add attributes to this digital data, and
slowly this became towards the use of GIS as we know it.
The first Digital mapping conference was held in Neiroubi 1967 if a I
remember well. My Self I started with Digital mapping and followed the
trend until now. The Canadians were developped in using GIS for the Hotels
I saw an application myself during a conference in 1985. The system was
installed in the Grand Hotel and helped me a lot to find places arounds.
The first issue of a GIS review was 1981 or 1982 I have to look for it. It
has also a mention about the evolution.
Leading companies at the time 1985 for example. Intergraph, Syscan, and
Arcinfo and some others. We had atender once in the instituion where I used
to work before...The Jordanian geographic center. One site I visited in
1985 was the KODAMS the digital mapping site og Intergraph in the
municipality of Kuwait.

I hope this will help you for know I will more for you. By the I used to
teach this chapter when I was conducting GIS courses.

Regards
Ghazi Qussous
GIS Advisor for the GTZ

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Dear Huda and All,

I might add to what Mr. Ghazi mentioned the name of Roger Tomlinson as well.
They say he's the father of GIS and 'he' is the one who called it GIS. He's
Australian and I think he was working for the Academia before moving for his
consulting firm now. He's old but still is contributing to the industry. I
have no idea of his current whereabouts, but I saw him 3 years ago in a
seminar in San Diego where he was sitting next to me and I have to say that
in addition to his technical fame, he's also a very nice down-to-earth
person.

Salaam,
Mohamed Mabrouk

Dear Huda,

As you have requested, I have found this on the web:
http://www.esri.com/training/gisplanning.html#About Dr. Tomlinson

It's Tomlinson's biography.

Salaam,
Mohamed Mabrouk

Dear Huda,

As you have requested, I have found this on the web:
http://www.esri.com/training/gisplanning.html

then search for Tomlinson's biography about mid-page.

Salaam,
Mohamed Mabrouk

Thank you so much for all your good wishes and I pray and wish same for you in 2007.

Best Regards

Akhilesh Akhouri
The Centre for GIS
Doha - Qatar

-----Original Message-----
From: gis-cafe@yahoogroups.com [mailto:gis-cafe@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Makram Murad
Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 7:23 PM
To: gis-cafe@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [GIS-Cafe] Greetings

Wishing all subscribers to gis-caf? and their families and loved ones a happy holiday season whether it be Christmas, Al-Adh'ha Eid or any other. Most imprortantly is my wish for all mankind to live in peace with one another regardless of differences in their religious beliefs or culture or race. May 2007 bring everyone together in harmony.

Makram Murad-al-shaikh
M.S. Cartography;?B.Sc. Civil engineering?
ESRI Instructor since 1993 - Educational Services
ESRI, Inc.
380 New York St. M3S07
Redlands CA 92373, USA
Tel. 909-793-2853 ext. 2016
http://www.esri.com/training/index.html
What is GIS? http://www.gis.com/

Mideastern Cafe for GISers. Relax, discuss, and benefit!
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gis-cafe
Yahoo! Groups Links

Thanks Makram for your sweet wishes,

I also wish all the list, and all the world a Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and Happy Adha. May we see a better world in 2007, with our GIS business booming, and helping support development goals, less famine, better resources management, and less conflicts and bloodshed in the world.

Don't forget to make your GIS resolutions for 2007;-)

Regards,

Dr. Ahmed Wagih
GIS/RS Consultant

----- Original Message ----
From: Makram Murad
To: gis-cafe@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 7:23:00 PM
Subject: [GIS-Cafe] Greetings

Wishing all subscribers to gis-caf? and their families and loved ones a happy holiday season whether it be Christmas, Al-Adh'ha Eid or any other. Most imprortantly is my wish for all mankind to live in peace with one another regardless of differences in their religious beliefs or culture or race. May 2007 bring everyone together in harmony.

Makram Murad-al-shaikh
M.S. Cartography; B.Sc. Civil engineering
ESRI Instructor since 1993 - Educational Services
ESRI, Inc.
380 New York St. M3S07
Redlands CA 92373, USA
Tel. 909-793-2853 ext. 2016
http://www.esri.com/training/index.html
What is GIS? http://www.gis.com/

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Thank you Makram for your kind wishes. May I take this opportunity to wish
all GIS-Caf? members very happy and blessed Xmas, Eid Al-Adha and New Year
2007.

Regards to all,

Nadeem Hashem

_____

From: gis-cafe@yahoogroups.com [mailto:gis-cafe@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
Of Makram Murad
Sent: 20 December 2006 19:23
To: gis-cafe@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [GIS-Cafe] Greetings

Wishing all subscribers to gis-caf? and their families and loved ones a
happy holiday season whether it be Christmas, Al-Adh'ha Eid or any other.
Most imprortantly is my wish for all mankind to live in peace with one
another regardless of differences in their religious beliefs or culture or
race. May 2007 bring everyone together in harmony.

Makram Murad-al-shaikh
M.S. Cartography; B.Sc. Civil engineering
ESRI Instructor since 1993 - Educational Services
ESRI, Inc.
380 New York St. M3S07
Redlands CA 92373, USA
Tel. 909-793-2853 ext. 2016
http://www.esri.
com/training/index.html
What is GIS? http://www.gis. com/

[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

dear friends

Happy Eid and happy new year to all of you

with my best wishes and regards

your's

mohammed zohny

GIS Consultant

Cybermak Information System ( Intergraph kuwait)

mzohny.cybermak@makharafi.net

moh_zohny@hotmail.com

+965 788 4716

Nadeem Hashem wrote:
Thank you Makram for your kind wishes. May I take this opportunity to wish
all GIS-Caf? members very happy and blessed Xmas, Eid Al-Adha and New Year
2007.

Regards to all,

Nadeem Hashem

_____

From: gis-cafe@yahoogroups.com [mailto:gis-cafe@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
Of Makram Murad
Sent: 20 December 2006 19:23
To: gis-cafe@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [GIS-Cafe] Greetings

Wishing all subscribers to gis-caf? and their families and loved ones a
happy holiday season whether it be Christmas, Al-Adh'ha Eid or any other.
Most imprortantly is my wish for all mankind to live in peace with one
another regardless of differences in their religious beliefs or culture or
race. May 2007 bring everyone together in harmony.

Makram Murad-al-shaikh
M.S. Cartography; B.Sc. Civil engineering
ESRI Instructor since 1993 - Educational Services
ESRI, Inc.
380 New York St. M3S07
Redlands CA 92373, USA
Tel. 909-793-2853 ext. 2016
http://www.esri.
com/training/index.html
What is GIS? http://www.gis. com/

[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

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