I wish I could click "Like" next to Iván's comments about NMAs. It's funny to see the NMA experience is the same regardless of the N.
OSM's data model should be an OGC standard, not just the planet file. Of course, the OSM community is moving to PBF as quickly as possible because XML (in the Planet file) kind of sucks for their data model. So OGC should look at that... I suspect that this very conversation was what originally spurned Frank Warmerdam to write the first version of GDAL/OGR. Instead of a universal file format, why not just build a universal translator? ... Not to side track things... but the fact that ArcGIS Data Interoperability relies on FME is actually quite hilarious. I just found out (the hard way) that the current version of FME won't expose the UID field in the OSM Planet File. Thank Guido for Python.... -Eric -=--=---=----=----=---=--=-=--=---=----=---=--=-=- Eric B. Wolf 720-334-7734 On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Iván Sánchez Ortega <[email protected]>wrote: > On Lunes, 9 de abril de 2012 18:42:19 Eric Wolf escribió: > > Wouldn't it be great to have native OSM Planet File and SpatiaLite > > support in ArcGIS? > > Heck, the OSM planet format should be an OGC standard. Unluckily, the OSMF > doesn't have all the money Google has, and so it's unable to push for > standardization of the OSM format, as Google did for KML. > > > > > 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? > > From my experience, NMAs don't want interoperability. What they want is a > piece of paper with "interoperability" and a lot of legalese written in it. > > Or, put another way: For a NMA, "interoperability" means 400 pages worth of > documents stating that yes, indeed, there is interoperability. > > Reminds me of this joke: http://xkcd.com/703/ (As does the word > "excellence" > and the reasons for joining EU-OSOR) > > > > I really need to stop before I find myself out of a job... > > *Un*fortunately I don't have that problem right now. Sigh. Damned R&D > spending > cuts. > > > -- > ---------------------------------- > Iván Sánchez Ortega <[email protected]> <[email protected]> > > Torta en masa bien se pasa. >
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