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| Subject: | Re: GISList: GIS P2P - * Market Research Question * |
| Date: |
01/20/2003 08:21:52 PM |
| From: |
Pat Waggaman |
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At 04:47 PM 1/10/03, Robert Heitzman wrote:
>>The lack of metadata in most standard files. ...the most info you can get
>>would be file name and spatial extent.
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>Folks should be requried to post minimal metadata in order to register
>their data.
I disagree. Any data you could get up onto such a sysem has the potential
to be useful.
Yes - it is necessary to differentiate between data which "Upper Left
Corner - Lower Right Corner, File_Type Ex .shp) and data which has an
included rich metadata structure.
The user has the opportunity of plugging in Lat / Long and seeing what is
available, if only the poorly documented data is available, that's what you
download: if there's a selection well get down to the "pick and choose".
>I assume the model is the directory is centrally located but the actual
>data is dispersed to various download points on the internet. Some QOS
>minimum should be required to stay registered and those who fail to
>provide a useful download point should have their ercords renmoved or
>flagged as less than useful.
Robert, I disagree with this for the same reason mentioned above, more is
better: when high quality is available, great: when it's not - it just
isn't available and the site is better off with something than nothing.
>Hard to say were the revenue would come from for the host. Perhaps
>charging folks to register any significant amount of data would be one
>source. Providing an ftp site for rent to store the data another. I would
>suppose lots of small providers would not have a good way to have a public
>internet ftp site.
I don't think you charge the folks who upload, you charge the
downloaders. Perhaps a subscription for the serious folks with the one
time users being able to pay a "one-time-fee", or perhaps a "24 hour licence".
>Something that may be a nice feature to sell is a way for an organization
>to provide a view of the stored files that is limited to their data. Not
>to exclude others but to provide a well organized public face to their
>data. This may allow small jurisdictions (Cites/Counties/etc.) a cheap way
>to get a public GIS download presence. Something akin to the google.com
>search limited to one newsgroup.
Spectacular, to provide a "distribution channel" for municipalities - free.
Users fall into various profiles, depending upon their use of the data,
they are willing to pay more or less for data access. This is the
difficult part of the model to figure out.
Carry on, no blowtorches please, it's a quiet sunny day here by the Chilean
beach,
Pat
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