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| Subject: | RE: GISList: Interior e-gov tack irks GIS vendors (Geospatial One-Stop initiative) |
| Date: |
04/23/2003 11:25:01 AM |
| From: |
Anthony Quartararo |
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I get the sense that OGC is less about interoperability and more about
making room for smaller vendors to bring their products to market in a
hostile environment. If that's even remotely true, more power to OGC, but
lose the cloak. Competition is good, great even, but don't disguise it
under a different banner. If I am wrong, then, I'm wrong,
Management (and thereby decision-making) by committee/consensus is almost
never a good idea. The last place this would be successful is in the
Government sector.
Backtracking just a bit, isn't the whole purpose of OGC and the
interoperability buzz solely for the purpose of WWW applications? Am I
missing something, isn't the rest of the industry still doing business the
old fashion way, in a client/server LAN ? Will OGC help me if I work in an
environment that has various client machines running ArcGIS, GeoMedia,
AutoCAD Map, etc. etc. from a server(s) connected to another RDBMS for
stuff, and yet another RDMS for imagery stuff, and so on and so on..that we
find in a typical office environment. These scenarios usually do not need
to access the WWW for anything related to GIS work, but still the need to
convert, transform and otherwise integrate various proprietary formats
happens every day. Is OGC going to solve this "interoperability" challenge
too ?
> -----Original Message-----
> Sure it is. Standards take incredibly much longer to
> establish than anyone would consider reasonable from a
> technical point of view. There is such a wealth of
> influences, ranging from science to politics to commerce (in
> what order?). Not to speak of conceptual disputes in cases
> where no single generally accepted way has been established
> yet. However, once these standards are settled they are not
> just valuable, but so common sense that you simply don't
> realize them any longer. Screws, disks, PCs, protocols, data
> exchange formats... how long did it take from the first
> graphics file stumbling into the Internet until GeoTIFF
> became standard? Would you consider JPEG2000 being worth pursuing it?
So, shouldn't there be a competing, alternative standards organization to
challenge OGC for standards superiority ?
Cheers,
Anthony
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