On Sat, December 9, 2006 22:36, Allan Doyle wrote: > Whoops. Hit 'send' too soon! > > On Dec 9, 2006, at 15:53, Allan Doyle wrote: > >> I guess had I opened Google Earth before I had read this, my >> reaction would have been one of surprise at how fairly lame and >> useless it is to toss up a bunch of seemingly undifferentiated >> points and call them a geographic web. >> >> Then I might have picked up on the Panoramio logo issue and would >> have thought it to be at best an unfortunate choice. I have been >> through some logo designs myself and know how hard it is to not >> bump into someone else's ideas yet keep some kind of an evocative >> theme. >> >> I think Google Earth's stance is pretty clear. They care first and >> foremost about getting their product out there and tend to show >> they have a very introverted or at least self-centered corporate >> culture. There may well be legions of GE marketing types who know >> nothing about either open standards or open source. I see this as a >> result of GE's genesis in the "black" world of > > well, you got the picture anyway...
You got us all curious now - which black well *did* GE crawl out of now? You have any more background information to share? Best regards, PS: Google proposes to push KML through OGC to get it standarized right and real (infos right out of the concrete basement of the december TC meeting) >> >> The sad fact is that 99% of GE users will look at this and think >> it's revolutionary. But we know better. It's Red Dot Fever (thanks >> to Schuyler for that term!) >> >> Vote with your mouse. Turn the layer off. >> >> Allan >> >> >> On Dec 9, 2006, at 15:08, Mike Liebhold wrote: >> >>> I clicked on google earth today, to follow my daughter & husband's >>> journey from brazil into argentina, and found an unexpected new >>> default view. >>> >>> I don't know which is more offensive: >>> >>> 1, That google would add a new default selected layer called >>> "geographic web" that is - no way - a "geographic web" >>> >>> or >>> >>> 2. that that the prominent logo on many proprietary kml placemark >>> pages from these "geographic web" points is so derivitive/poached >>> from the widely recognized OSGEO logo. see panoramio.com >>> >>> And it's kind of counter-intuitive to see some non-editable >>> wikipedia pages have mysteriously been imported into google's own >>> non-standard kml format. >>> >>> If google earth actually supported standards, starting with html >>> and georss, wfs/wms/gml I guess they could claim a "geographic >>> web". Until then it looks like a clearly blantant appropriation >>> for private advantage of the term "geographic web" that >>> explicitly means open standard hypermedia, to most rational people. >>> >>> check it out. >>> >>> - Mike Liebhold >> >> -- >> Allan Doyle >> +1.781.433.2695 >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> > > -- > Allan Doyle > +1.781.433.2695 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > _______________________________________________ > Geowanking mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking > -- Arnulf Christl http://www.ccgis.de _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
