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| Subject: | GISList: RE: Protecting GIS data |
| Date: |
05/06/2002 09:53:07 AM |
| From: |
Quantitative Decisions |
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At 12:34 PM 4/29/02 -0400, Miller, Keith wrote:
>Why would you want to protect data itself? If you do not want shared do
>not release it. GIS data should be accessible to all in need.
Interesting question. "Protection" can mean many different things. You
have implicitly assumed it means restricting access. Certainly there are
people who want to do that, for reasons I prefer not to discuss because
this is the wrong forum. But there are many other people who want to
ensure that their data do not become corrupted, who want to ensure the
currency of their data, who want to make sure their data are used in the
form originally released, who want to digitally sign their work as a
statement of authorship, if not ownership, and who want to limit their
liability for misuse of their data by others. These are all things that
have universal benefit, even in a hypothetical market-free society where
things of value, like GIS data, are offered at no cost to anyone.
The articles on vector steganography at directionsmag.com mention many of
these applications. They illustrate, for example, how one could use
steganography to embed metadata within the GIS features themselves, thereby
making it difficult to lose the metadata. Maybe these articles are worth
actually reading... :-)
--Bill Huber
PS: I removed the cc: to the ArcView lists because they are not set up
to handle a discussion of this nature.
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