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| Subject: | Re: GISList: Interior e-gov tack irks GIS vendors (Geospatial
One-Stop initiative) |
| Date: |
04/19/2003 04:40:01 AM |
| From: |
Michael Gould |
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At 12:43 18/04/2003 -0700, Paul Ramsey wrote:
>Dimitri Rotow wrote:
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>>Let's try a thought experiment: suppose agencies really wanted to share
>>data - why not use SDTS and simply put everything up for free download via
>>FTP?
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>Dmitri is right, the problem of GIS data sharing has alot more to do with=
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>organizational intent than with technology. In many ways, OpenGIS=20
>technology could make the problem worse, by convincing organizations that=
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>they can have their cake and eat it too: provide access to data via OGC=20
>interfaces without losing "control" over their oh-so-precious data.
Arrrrrrrrgh! You don't open the data (or your source code), you open the=
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INTERFACES!!!!
I need a Tylenol.
Mike Gould
>The experience here in BC has certainly been instructive. On the one hand,=
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>a government employee created a heirarchical FTP site and placed as much=
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>licence-free BC data into has he could find, all in the same format and=20
>projection (unfortunately the format was E00, but c'est la vie). On the=20
>other hand an agency build a massive web portal for ordering data=20
>(including the free stuff, which can be had for free from the web site if=
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>you have the patience) for several million dollars.
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>I've used the portal zero times and the FTP site hundreds of time.
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>However, that was the *last* ten years. The *next* ten years could be=20
>vastly different, since theoretically the location of data will become=20
>irrelevant as long as you can programatically discover and use it via=20
>standard interfaces. Theoretically. :)
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> | Paul Ramsey
> | Refractions Research
> | Email: pramsey@refractions.net
> | Phone: (250) 885-0632
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Michael Gould
Depto. Lenguajes y Sistemas Inform=E1ticos
(Information Systems Department)
Universitat Jaume I
E-12071 Castell=F3n (Spain)
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