OGC does have the designed-by-committee problem (among other issues). I suspect that OGC will go the way of GITA if they don't reinvent themselves. OGC was supposed to be modeled after W3C but with more specific industry input. I think they need to step away from direct industry input and try formalizing the good de facto standards - more like the way W3C works. When GIS was still a relatively niche field, OGC was able to concentrate the "smart people" on their standards. In the era of neogeography, there are some very, very smart people out there who would rather churn out The Next Big Thing rather than discuss draft specifications for the next five years. These people create big things like TileCache, Openlayers, SpatiaLite, and OpenStreetMap. OGC should troll those communities and cherry pick good ideas, wrap them in a formal specification, and get their members to adopt them. Wouldn't it be great to have native OSM Planet File and SpatiaLite support in ArcGIS?
Wouldn't it be great to be able to use Google Maps with OpenLayers? Oh wait, that already works... Hmmm... Maybe the problem is more concentrated than it seems. Is interoperability problem really concentrated in Esri? Does OGC provide an "out" for NMAs who are supposed to be producing accessible data? The National Map data are available via WMS. That's an open standard so everybody should be able to get it, right? <sarcasm>Doesn't OpenLayers read WMS just as easily as it does Google Maps? Doesn't that mean you can use The National Map in place of Google Maps in your web application?</sarcasm> I really need to stop before I find myself out of a job... -Eric -=--=---=----=----=---=--=-=--=---=----=---=--=-=- Eric B. Wolf 720-334-7734 On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Iván Sánchez Ortega <[email protected]>wrote: > On Lunes, 9 de abril de 2012 17:59:16 Eric Wolf escribió: > > This is exactly what OGC is supposed to do - get everyone on board with a > > standard. But OGC gets caught up in things that are too far reaching and > > ultimately get disrupted. > > > As the joke goes, a dromedary is just a horse designed by committee. > > That always comes to mind when I'm reading a 300-page-long OGC standard. > I'm > sure you guys know the feeling. > > > -- > ---------------------------------- > Iván Sánchez Ortega <[email protected]> <[email protected]> > > Aviso: Este e-mail es confidencial y no debería ser usado por nadie que no > sea > el destinatario original. No se permite la reproducción mediante fotocopia, > walkie-talkie, emisora de radioaficionado, satélite, televisión por cable, > proyector, señales de humo, código morse, braille, lenguaje de signos, > taquigrafía o cualquier otro medio. Bajo ningún concepto debe traducirse al > francés este e-mail. Este e-mail no puede ser ridiculizado, parodiado, > juzgado > en una competición, o leído en voz alta con un acento gracioso llevando un > bigote falso y/o cualquier tipo de sombrero, incluyendo pero no > limitándose a > pañuelos. No inciten ni provoquen a este e-mail. Si está medicándose, puede > experimentar nauseas, desorientación, histeria, vómitos, pérdida temporal > de > la memoria a corto plazo y malestar general al leer este e-mail. Consulte > a su > médico o farmacéutico antes de leer este e-mail. Todas las modelos > descritas > en este e-mail son mayores de 18 años. Este e-mail se reserva el derecho de > admisión. Si ha recibido este e-mail por error es probablemente porque > estaba > borracho cuando escribí la dirección del destinatario. > > _______________________________________________ > Geowanking mailing list > [email protected] > http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org >
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