On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 11:54 -0500, Frank Warmerdam wrote: > Dylan Beaudette wrote: > > Thanks for posting this transaction Nikos. I look forward to further > > communications from the EEA. > > > > As Hamish mentioned a couple messages up in this thread, it would be a > > good idea (if it hasn't already been done) to formalize these type of > > communications with government agencies to lobby for open formats. > > Folks, > > One option might be to involve the OSGeo geodata committee, with the > intention of possible having OSGeo submit an official request/suggestion > to such agencies. > > I do think the agencies reasoning is not *too* off. They provide shapefiles > which are widely accessable but also .mdb files due to the lossiness of > shapefiles. A good solution would be to provide the data in GML format > which can avoid the lossiness of shapefiles and they seem to be moving > in that direction. We just need to provide gentle encouragement. The > telling point is that the .mdb files are essentially inaccessable outside > an ArcGIS environment. > > Best regards,
I am learning ;-) ...and I like it! Thank you all, Nikos P.S. I suppose no "rough summary" of all this issues exists. Or does it? _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user
