Brian,
I am interested in this topic as well. We have a system to make Minnesota
air quality data available to the public. It consists of point sources,
ambient data from monitoring stations, and Air Quality Index data for
regional areas. I am always interested in looking at new ways to store,
slice, represent, and publish this type of information.
David Fawcett
On 6/13/07, Allan Doyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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
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> - brian grant
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