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| Subject: | Re: GISList: de facto standards |
| Date: |
07/31/2003 07:15:00 PM |
| From: |
Ron Lake |
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Hi,
Yes FME is a great product. You should also look into Geography Markup
Language (GML) the emerging world standard for encoding geographic
information and potentially the final solution to this data
interconversion issue. Most GI vendors have started to adopted GML
(including ESRI) and once that takes hold we can finally see an end to
this endless round of data converions. Of course this will not solve any
one's short term data conversion issues. You can use FME to convert to
and from GML by the way ..
GML clearly distinguishes presentation from content - GML is focused on
content but through the SLD specification and GML default style provides
means of associating GML geography with SVG and other expressions of
graphical presentation. In this way presentation can not only be
extended to other graphical formats but also to text and audilble
presentation forms as well.
Cheers
Ron
Kevin Whitlock wrote:
>Viktoas & other Listers....
>
>Safe Software's (http://www.safe.com) Feature Manipulation Engine (FME) allows
>you to separate content from format. Why worry about finding a 'lowest common
>denominator' file format when FME can translate from almost all GIS/CAD formats
>to any other GIS/CAD format? All for about $500US.
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>Instead of thinking about a Word or Corel document file as being a 'standard'
>format, try to think of the alphabet as the standardized basis of the document,
>regardless of the application. This is how FME works...with polygons, points,
>arcs, etc...the 'characters' of the GIS/CAD alphabet, if you would.
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>That being said, there are still a lot of people exchanging CAD information in
>Autodesk .DXF and .DWG formats.
>
>KW
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: viktoras [mailto:firekv@hotmail.com]
>Sent: August 1, 2003 12:39 AM
>To: gislist@geocomm.com
>Subject: GISList: de facto standards
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> Hi , I would like to ask what universal data formats (both "old" and
>"new", binary or ASCII) should be used to ensure portability of digital maps -
>both raster and vector among most of the available GIS software without a risk
>of information loss. Thanks in advance Viktoras
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