> From: "P Kishor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] idea for an OSGeo project -- a new, open > data format > To: "OSGeo Discussions" <[email protected]> > Message-ID: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > On 11/13/07, Frank Warmerdam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> P Kishor wrote: >>> So, I am thinking, Shapefile is the de facto data standard for GIS >>> data. >>>BIG SNIP
> Having a server-less, self-contained, rdbms-capable format would be the key. No argument per say. However, it's my -very much less than- 2 cents worth, that while this is very useful, I wouldn't do it to the exclusion of server based, distributed database. Meaning, that's nice, but if you can't easily transition the data munging back into a larger shared dataset, then the utility is somewhat less than optimal. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
