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| Subject: | Re: [gislist] GoogleMaps? |
| Date: |
10/21/2005 01:45:01 PM |
| From: |
Sonny Parafina |
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Anthony Quartararo wrote:
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> What we don't see in the landscape are things like "desktop GIS", "GIS", or
> even "OGC" [note to the faithful: not a dig], and so, what will we [as an
> entrenched, slow moving, traditional industry] do when the only place people
> go (practically speaking) for anything geospatial will be the virtual
> (mammoth) googleplex... ?
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Actually, OGC systems are at the forefront of google maps / google earth
integration. There are many examples on the bbs.keyhole.com board of GE
using WMS services and we are starting to see simple WFS integration.
The slow adoption of WFS is probably due to the fact that you need the
enterprise version of GE to fully use all the data encoded in GML.
There are sites such as www.katrinaimagery.org that use a WMS backend
for google earth and a typical static map client.
All this validates the robustness of the OGC architecture since
integration can be quite trivial, especially for WMS. I'm not sure
about the rest of y'all but for me, the death knell for desktop gis as
the only spatial tool sounded about 1993. Sure there will always be GIS
operators as well as COBOL programmers, but the future of mass
distribution of geospatial data and services lies in those vendors
committed to a service oriented architecture such as OGC.
sonny
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