Hi While preparing a talk about the "State of GIS" I got some background thoughts:
In the most recent journal called „Esri.com“ (Winter 2012) there's an article about „Open Source Cloded Source – Moving to the middle” which I did not understand: Are they changing their business model? Do they abandon obvious vendor lock-in issues? I know that Esri supported OGC, FOSS4G 2011 and several software projects like GDAL, as well on Codeplex, Sourceforge and Github and it donated money to OpenStreetMap and the 52north project. That's creditable and undoubtedly a step in the right direction. But many important issues are still not resolved: I like ArcGIS Desktop but I'm missing WPS as webservices to make Geoprocessing interoperable. I'd like to use ArcGIS Online, it has a quite decent Terms of Use (AFAIK). But there's no way to get own derived data back out of ArcGIS Online again; not as WMTS nor as WMS or WFS neither. Am I missing something? -S. _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org
