On Jun 13, 2007, at 09:24, brian grant wrote:
pardon my impressions as I've lurked this site for years and read this
thread with some amusement.
the street view focus on the visual seems to be an effort to
capture the
transient but my needs are to capture repeatedly over time and not
just the
visual - I need temperature, humidity, particulate and other
atmospheric
data.
I'm not necessarily looking for a way to commercialize or publish
data - I'm
here trying to find an appropriate geospatial reference that
defines area
not points - recursive areas of ever increasing resolution that fit
nicely
into a database schema or even file directory structure.
You are on to something. The environmental data you seek is being
gathered by a number of groups in a number of formats with a number
of different metadata schemas in a number of different repositories.
The "appropriate geospatial reference" you seek should be something
that you can then use to query for, find, and extract the data you
are looking for.
I think in the long run, it's easier to build OpenStreetView than to
build something that lets you do what you want.
The good news is that a lot of smart people have been working on your
problem. The bad news is that they have been working for a long time
and it's not clear that they have come up with a viable solution, nor
is a viable solution anywhere on the horizon.
Allan
- brian grant
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