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| Subject: | Re: GISList: Comments on DEMS |
| Date: |
08/03/2001 08:22:27 PM |
| From: |
harry |
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Hello Glenn and my fellow GISnetters.
Just my own penny opinion. Yes, we all wish to have free access to all GIS
database. The government agencies did receive the funding to collect,
produce the database we need. But when the project (of producing these
data) first began, people didn't realize what these database might be used
and distributed as what we are doing now. As both database and userbase are
increasing, governmental agencies are forced to downsized budgetally.
Shifting to private agencies seems to be a logical solution, as long as the
services is good and cost is reasonable.
As Glenn said, I did download tons of data from GeoComm. Thanks for their
decent services in the past few years.
Right now, my colleagues I are working on a nationwide GIS data warehousing
project funded by Taiwan central government. This is a multi-year project.
At this moment (from now to the May 2002), we need to construct the master
plan for the whole warehousing and also a prototype system to demonstrate
how this master plan might work. We are searching around the web for cases
in both inside/outside GIS domain. USGS happens to be one of the agents we
are studying now. Any comment and/or suggestion is appreciated.
Best,
Harry
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* Dr. Harry KC Chang Associate Professor Dept. of Geography, NTNU *
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