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| Subject: | RE: GISList: Shapefile libraries? |
| Date: |
05/18/2003 03:10:01 PM |
| From: |
Dale Lutz |
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Hi all,
I think it may be even better, looking forward, if there become a bunch
of sites that run WFS servers, and have end users run clients to extract
or view the data they want.
Our FME product line now includes client support for WFS servers and can
display WFS results directly in applications such as ArcView, GeoMedia,
and Envision, and MapPoint without translation. Or, the user can, on
the desktop, get translation done into any format we can write to (about
60). See http://www.safe.com/news/2003/May09_2003.htm for our press
release about this.
Dale
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Dale Lutz Safe Software Inc. dal@safe.com
VP Development Surrey, BC, CANADA phone: (604) 501-9985
http://www.safe.com fax: (604) 501-9965
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sonny Parafina [mailto:sonny@ionicenterprise.com]
> Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2003 8:40 AM
> To: Mick Wilson: gislist@geocomm.com
> Subject: RE: GISList: Shapefile libraries?
>
> Ionic RedSpider Web can connect to OpenGIS conformant Web Feature
Servers
> and distribute the data as zipped shape files to users in addition to
> serving features as GML.
>
> Sonny Parafina
> www.ionicenterprise.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John D. Evans [mailto:john.evans@gsfc.nasa.gov]
> Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 10:34 AM
> To: Mick Wilson: gislist@geocomm.com
> Subject: Re: GISList: Shapefile libraries?
>
>
> Mick, and others,
>
> It seems shapefile SERVERS would suit most of your purposes a lot
better
> than pre-fabricated shapefiles. You could get exactly what you want,
in
> one piece, at the resolution you need (give or take some
generalization
> smarts on the server :-).
>
> (The two approaches aren't mutually exclusive, of course: in fact by
> chopping up large datasets into little tiles you could create a simple
> spatial index that would greatly speed up your server.)
>
> I'm aware of some (e.g. CubeWerx in Canada) who have begun using OGC's
Web
> Feature Service interface to serve up geographic features bundled as
> shapefiles.
>
> At 04:01 PM 5/9/2003 +0100, Mick Wilson wrote:
> >Greetings.
> >
> >I am curious whether listers are aware of any extant efforts to build
> >comprehensive on-line libraries of useful, light-weight shapefiles
such
> >as country outlines, coastlines, islands and the likes. I appreciate
that
> >these data are available in some aggregated forms, but these suffer
the
> >cost of sizeable download, having to be de-aggregated to get
> >the bit one needs, necessarily being provided at a single scale (nor
> >appropriate for smaller elements), and having a single projection
that
> >distorts elements toward the edges (look at scandinavia in most
global,
> >geo/mercator composits).
> >
> >If such efforts are not afoot, how many listers would be interested
in
> >contributing time and effort to buidling such an archive, assuming
that a
> >suitable host site could be found?
> >
> >I am suggesting here a quickly-usable asset, not necessarily suitable
for
> >intensely serious GIS work but adequate for quick-and-dirty map
> >development. My searches so far have found little to nothing
available to
> >meet this need.
> >
> >Thanx in advance for your attention.
>
>
> - John D. Evans, Ph.D. <jdevans@gst.com>
> Global Science & Technology, Inc. (GST)
> Geospatial Interoperability Group
> 1-240-542-1133 / 1-301-286-0803
>
>
>
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