2012/4/9 Steve Coast <[email protected]>:
> Nobody give a flying monkey about the format jerking.

I do care.
There's no GIS project I have been involved ever where format wasn't an issue.
Even for specifiying responses in webservices.

> It's 2012 and we're waffling about formats. How about problems which I 
> actually care about or might generate actual revenue?

Good useful standards are not going to make revenu - but they help
reduce your expenses.

> * What is the bar within 30 minutes journey from me with a decent IPA, a good 
> atmosphere and free parking?
>
> We can't do that.

Well, we can do that (almost): See e.g. http://isochrone.ch . And
guess, how much sweat it was to import this stuff?
My hope is that I don't have to begin writing a parser alle the time
before getting to the real modeling and semantic issues.

Yours, S.

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