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| Subject: | GISList: web services data (was cart and data viewer) |
| Date: |
08/26/2003 02:40:00 AM |
| From: |
Michael Gould Carlson |
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Dimitri,
One of the beauties of web service architecture is that it allows data providers
(normally public sector agencies) to maintain/update the data at the source:
users get access to the freshest data on-line instead of downloading gigabytes
of roads files (for example) which are essentially out of date within an hour
when the next traffic jam or constructuion project begins!
Your assumption that "GIS users" will want to download everything just in case
is flawed, I think. Gone are the days when the typical "GIS user" is a bored
government researcher in a lab somewhere. General public users need quick,
simple, on-line solutions.
Also, regarding your OGC analysis, again it is off. OpenGIS interface specs are
(often) heavy documents, but their implementations need not be. I wish we could
say the same for the Microsoft Windows programming specs your company (like
many others) uses.
saludos
Michael Gould
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-----Original Message-----
From: Dimitri Rotow [mailto:dar@manifold.net]
Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 10:21 AM
To: gislist@geocomm.com
Subject: RE: GISList: Cartography and Data Viewer
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The idea of web services that just give you only that part of the data you
"need" is just another webstacle to keep you from having access to *all* the
data you might want. Don't buy into that, or the next thing you know you
won't have access to all the data when you need it.
Cheers,
Dimitri
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