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| Subject: | Re: [gislist] Google Maps and the OGC |
| Date: |
02/17/2005 01:30:02 PM |
| From: |
Ron Lake |
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Hi Landon:
As one of the small company participants, I think your basic assumption
is incorrect. A great deal of the work and innovation at the OGC is
done by small companies, and small players have a significant impact on
the decisions in the TC. This includes open source activities (e.g.
Gascom, Ugas, geotools etc.) as well as many small commercial vendors.
Open standards and open source are of course very different - sometimes
open source implies open standards and sometimes not - the better
situation is open standards with an open source component and that IS
the case with the OGC.
Sincerely,
Ron
rlake@galdosinc.com
>I believe Anthony brings up some valid points about the latest debut of Google Maps and the relevance of the OGC. It got my wheels cranking a little bit, and I'm afraid I must now open Pandora's box.
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>I noticed that mebmership at the OGC is very expensive, (at least for voting members), this would lead me to believe that voting membership is controlled mainly by large corporations and government agencies. Do you think that this excludes open source software projects and small companies from the decision making process? I realize the OGC gains a lot of its weight from these big (and paying) members, but I think the input from the small players is also important.
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>What are your thoughts? Are there any alternatives to the open standards work at the OGC? Specifically for open source projects, or small commercial software designers?
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>I know only of the GeoAPI, which is close, but Java specific....
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>http://geoapi.sourceforge.net/
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>I know the OGC is involved in a work that should benfit the community as a whole, and I can't criticize with a loud voice, as I'm not very familiar with the OGC process. Do I raise a valid issue? Has it already been addressed by the OGC?
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