Say good bye to Taipei

Today is my last day with the taiwan based company. This company is very big and special that it gives me a ground not even to exploit what I've learned in my University studies, but also putting me to another levels which is what I feel. This also gives me a very good opportunity to me so that I can open my eyes to see the world. The world is really big and it is full of fun to explore it during my search on map database. I have been in many countries in Eastern Europe. Starting from Hong Kong, then I flied to Germany, visited Croatia, and ran to Warsawza. I was also been in Moscow, and Baltics, as well as Cluj, a city in Romainia. The most beautiful city is Praha in Czech. You can listen many good music there in some very old church. This is interesting without doubt as I didn't meet a friend of mine in my own city who has travelled for so many cities as I did.

More funny thing is that I have a chance to meet GIS specialist, Land Surveyor and spatial experts all over the world, perhaps, most in Eastern Europe. I've found that we have a common lanugages that other people cannot understand too. This is a good experience and I've found common thing happening in different part of the world that open source GIS system is growing very fast. Another common thing is that most map providers would use ESRI ArcGIS for data editing. This gives me a signal that ArcGIS is still a very powerful in map production.

This is not the end as another interesting experience is to build a car navigation system. Although I managed this kind of project or product before, this time was different as my counterpart was not usual. He was a Professor in Mathematics. I really admired his talent and ability. But there is nothing prefect in the world that smart people is normally stubborned or you can say they are difficult to communicate.

Sometimes, I felt people focused on talking more than real works.

Well, my next stop is the Government and hope I can see more and of course, I would like to apply what I've learned in data modeling, web mapping and other technologies in my works.