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| Subject: | Re: [gislist] GoogleMaps? |
| Date: |
10/23/2005 11:55:01 AM |
| From: |
Sonny Parafina |
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I wish we stop these grandiose claims of 80% or whatever percentage. =
Its easy to claim that data has a location component, such as "next to =
the big oak tree where the old general store used to be." I even recall =
looking at soviet era maps for a pipeline routing project that were =
photocopied but all the grid references were neatly cutout. Spatial =
data without a reference system is next to useless. Sure all data has a =
location and a time dimension, but typically is not usable. Just more =
geo-hubris from when we all thought that GIS was special and different =
from other information technologies.
sonny
Michael Gould Carlson wrote:
> HVP: You have created yet another figure for the supposed importance of G=
I: "70%
> of all information is spatial". :-)
> =
> FDGC recently stated that GI is a key component of 80-90% of government d=
ata.
> http://www.fgdc.gov/publications/homeland.html
> =
> The original/standard claim, totally unsupported by empirical study, is t=
hat 80%
> of public sector information has a spatial component, or may be reference=
d 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 a=
ward
> Google control of GI, per se.
> =
> Mike Gould
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> Mensaje citado por hvp <hvp@regiononepdc.org>:
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> =
>>>---------- 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
>>
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> [http://www.spatialdatalogic.com/cs/blogs/brian_flood/archive/2005/09/12/=
98.aspx]:
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>>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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