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| Subject: | Re: GISList: GIS P2P - * Market Research Question * |
| Date: |
01/20/2003 08:21:52 PM |
| From: |
Paul Ramsey |
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Anthony Quartararo wrote:
> The question really is, what, if any applications do you feel this might
> have, what problems would this solve, what fatal flaws are not so apparent?
The lack of metadata in most standard files. In the music case, two
things worked in favour of Napster: file names and MP3 ID tags provided
just enough metadata to allow for a reasonable search. With GIS files,
assuming the people have not filled in any metadata "helper" files like
the new ArcGIS XML files, the most info you can get would be file name
and spatial extent.
I still think it could be useful though. The sheer usefulness of simple
FTP "archive" sites inside organizations indicates to me that an
easy-to-setup and globally published (via the napster central directory)
system would be an order-of-magnitude more useful.
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| Paul Ramsey
| Refractions Research
| Email: pramsey@refractions.net
| Phone: (250) 885-0632
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