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| Subject: | Re: [gislist] GoogleMaps? |
| Date: |
10/23/2005 03:45:02 AM |
| From: |
Michael Gould Carlson |
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On an alternate note, please consider that lumping "desktop GIS", "GIS", even
"OGC" in a single category, is to confuse the nature of what OGC really is.
(11 years adter its founding I am still hearing strange references to OGC
systems, OGC data, OGC is slow/fast...)
It's like lumping CD, DVD, and plug-n-play standards, and asking which
technology is best for the multimedia industry. The third is intrinsically
different, akin to OGC: in both cases the interfaces are the key, not so much
the technology inside the boxes connected.
So the dichotomy Google Maps/Earth vs OGC is spurious. Google should exploit OGC
interface specs (and also certain W3C recommendations, etc.) to facilitate
mash-ups that are not isolated from other geospatial apps. These mash-ups
should be available as WMS/WFS/WCS (allowing any user to "add service, add
layer") within an SDI client such as the EU geospatial portal (Inspire demo),
geospatial one-stop, or the Spanish national SDI (www.idee.es) to name 3
examples. Or to pull up the data layers on a cell phone app.
In most cases adding OGC support is not an OR but rather an AND option. Do what
you do best AND add OGC support to facilitate up-take.
saludos,
Mike Gould
Mensaje citado por Sonny Parafina <sonny@ionicenterprise.com>:
> Anthony Quartararo wrote:
> >
> > 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... ?
> >
>
> 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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