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| Subject: | Re: GISList: Interior e-gov tack irks GIS vendors (Geospatial One-Stop
initiative) |
| Date: |
04/23/2003 12:00:01 PM |
| From: |
Paul Ramsey |
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Anthony Quartararo wrote:
> 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 ?
I wish. :)
But the Simple Features for SQL spec hasn't been touched in years,
despite remaining grey areas and inconsistencies, the conformance suite
is actually internally inconsistent, and OGC seems relentlessly
determined to ignore the failures of its past. Ironically, ESRI has done
more to standardize client/server access over the last couple years via
its support of a spatially enabled OLEDB provider in the Arc8 family
than OGC has.
The OGC "vendor community" roundly ignored desktop client/server
interoperability standards last time around, I doubt OGC wants another
trip through that snake pit.
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| Paul Ramsey
| Refractions Research
| Email: pramsey@refractions.net
| Phone: (250) 885-0632
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