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| Subject: | Re: [gislist] GoogleMaps? |
| Date: |
10/23/2005 04:15:01 AM |
| From: |
Michael Gould Carlson |
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HVP: You have created yet another figure for the supposed importance of GI:=
"70%
of all information is spatial". :-)
FDGC recently stated that GI is a key component of 80-90% of government dat=
a.
http://www.fgdc.gov/publications/homeland.html
The original/standard claim, totally unsupported by empirical study, is tha=
t 80%
of public sector information has a spatial component, or may be referenced =
to
locations on the Earth (i.e. addresses, post codes).
Most of these claims mention a GI component to data, and so they do not awa=
rd
Google control of GI, per se.
Mike Gould
Mensaje citado por hvp <hvp@regiononepdc.org>:
> =
> > ---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
> > From: Sonny Parafina <sonny@ionicenterprise.com>
> > Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 13:35:35 -0400
> > =
> > in Google Earth, you can load your own imagery
> > =
> >> Landon Blake wrote:
> >> Have you ever waited for imagery to load on Google Maps?
> >> =
> >> My desktop GIS is a lot faster......
> =
> You can import shapefiles in Google Earth. Recently, I beta-tested Arc2Ea=
rth
>
[http://www.spatialdatalogic.com/cs/blogs/brian_flood/archive/2005/09/12/98=
.aspx]:
> works well for simple polygons, works ok for complex polylines.
> =
> Anyway, it is, mildly put, "short-sighted" of an industry that touts "70%=
of
> all information is spatial" to not see competition from a company that
> proclaims to "organize the world's information". Especially, when the
> competing approach was already around- the USGS's TIGER Map Server
> [http://tiger.census.gov/cgi-bin/mapbrowse-tbl]. Still, none of the GIS
> bigwigs could come up with such a simple distribution model [more
> service-oriented, less sales-oriented] that truly domesticates spatial
> technology. A high-end niche role is fine, but I am sure they=92d have lo=
ved to
> get the multitudes of low-end users. =
> =
> And desktop GIS might just take a new meaning if browser-based applicatio=
ns
> gain ground. Take a peek @ [http://robin.sourceforge.net] in Firefox
> [http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/].
> =
> Harsh Prakash
> [http://www.spatiallink.org/gistools/discuss/weblogs/blogs/]
> =
> PS: BTW, SRC [http://65.39.85.13/google/] lacks important explanation. The
> smallest unit is an irregular census block, so non-approximate data for
> random circles doesn't seem quite right. =
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