Salut Christian, We've the same concern and are involved in several project that needs INSPIRE conformance. MDweb2 is one of those (a metadata catalog application) and it's using extensively GT on it's backend. We're curently working on the metadata library to give it a full INSPIRE conformance, so if you've questions or comments about that, don't hesitate to chime us.
Cheers, Vincent Le 22 janv. 09 à 08:11, Christian Müller a écrit : > As far as I am concerned, I would try to enhance geotools to better > support > the INSPIRE EU directive. > > This directive is from the European Commission and all member states > have to > build a national GDI using all these ISO, W3C and OGC standards. The > time > frame ends with 2015, but many national projects have been launched > already. > > As I have seen many countries and administrative units tend to use > the ESRI > stuff which forces the use of the ESRI server components. These > components > implement official interfaces but store the data in proprietary > manner. > Another fact is, that in my opinion, the server components are built > for MS > servers and only ported to other platforms, loosing performance. > > Another fact is that all European people have to support these > projects > paying their taxes. > > I would like to improve geotools to build a open source alternative, > especially for poorer countries. To be fair, the first target are my > customers, because I have to earn money, of course. > > I know this is heavy stuff, but I dont want to leave the battlefield > without > trying to do it better and avoiding "vendor lock ins" as we have > seen during > the last 20 years. > > > christian > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by: > SourcForge Community > SourceForge wants to tell your story. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword > _______________________________________________ > Geotools-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
