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Originally Posted by Forza
To say "That Map is not going to be what makes the decision for us." is too bad. The tool is there for you to use and help with decisions.
The Google Map Mashup is a tool with many purposes, so to totally ignore it would be a disservice to members on Camaro5.
It should be used to facilitate decision making for future festivities and many others here agree.
That is only my opinion.
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Have you not been reading the thread?
did you not see how many times we've elaborated on all the different factors we consider???
I'm very familiar with the information that can be extracted form open source GIS as well as enterprise GIS, I use them frequently in my own products.
But to say that your map is the only deciding factor would be irresponsible on our part.
We already know that more camaros have been sold in the northeast than any other region, even if you mapped out every location of all 40K members, you'd still not have an accurate count of who's going to the fest and who isn't...
I have no idea how many records you've captured but keep in mind we had somewhere near 1500 people attend C5FII and over 1000 at C5FI...
There is no way to ensure that those who register on your map will in fact go to the fest...
is it a valuable resource? Absolutely! Will we reference it? Of course.
But that will not be anywhere near the top of our list when making the final decision. Will it be a factor? of course it will.
But we have members all over the country and we'd like the fest to be in everyone's back yard. not just where the majority of our members are...
If that were the case it would always be in Texas... It's pretty obvious they are the most active state on our forum.
Please, accept my apology for being so snippy about this.
There is no mathematical formula to deciding where the fest will be.
I can tell you this. It will not be anywhere near I-10 if it were solely up to me... we have to many northerners on this forum to expect them to travel again. And we have a TON of sponsors in the NE region also.
Now, we are no where near a final decision. And for all I know it could be in Alaska next year.
Gah. I'm sorry for being an ass about this... But it's not as easy as you guys might think to figure all this out knowing that all of you are waiting and there is no way we can please everyone...
OK, I'm gonna leave this thread alone for a while... Sorry for the rant.