We're fairly close to the EU agenda within the application schemas support - which is fairly well supported in Geotools, not yet yet in geoserver. - most of the application schemas we are using as test case and business drivers international efforts that will be adopted by INSPIRE (eg GeoSciML) or use the ISO principles in a more sophisticated fashion than the EU "lowest common denominator" Use Case.
Paying attention to this potential 'market" will be the make or break of many FOSS spatial tools I suspect. Rob On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 8:25 PM, Vincent Heurteaux <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
