+1 I am with Puneet on both the dark beers and the data format problem. On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 5:09 PM, Puneet Kishor <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Apr 9, 2012, at 2:58 PM, Steve Coast <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Nobody give a flying monkey about the format jerking. > > I do. > > > > > It's 2012 and we're waffling about formats. How about problems which I > actually care about or might generate actual revenue? > > While I would love to know if there is a nice bar with good porter or > stout (dislike IPA), I actually don't give a flying monkey about generating > revenue, mainly because of the nature of my current employment. I get paid > to create stuff and give it away. My employer is not worried about making > money off of my efforts. > > > ... If I may, we have a Small Data problem; > http://stevecoast.com/2012/04/10/small-data/ not any format problems. > > > > > > No, we *do* have a data format problem, and will likely continue to have > for the foreseeable future. Different data formats slow me down, making me > work more, thereby, making me more expensive per unit of useful output to > my employer. The reason we will likely have a data format problem for a > while, if not forever, is because sometimes different data formats do > become necessary. > > We can alleviate the problem with the help of interfaces that allow us to > query the underlying data using standard APIs without really caring or even > knowing what the storage format or technology is... But, someone, somewhere > has to worry about it. A robust replacement for Shapefiles might be useful, > especially for portable data files. > > -- > Puneet Kishor > _______________________________________________ > Geowanking mailing list > [email protected] > http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org >
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