On Tuesday 08 December 2009, Venkatesh Hariharan wrote: > On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Vickram Crishna <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Venkatesh Hariharan < > > > > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Great letter. The FOSSCOMM letter could add that if Kerala Government > >> uses proprietary geo data formats, these formats could become redundant > >> once the Government of India mandates open standards. > > > > I agree with Venky, this point needs to be amplified in para 4, in future > > communications and interaction on this proposal. > > > > Perhaps we can begin advocating for mandatory open data standards within > > Kerala for now, rather than wait for the (stalled?) national process to > > run its course. > > The open standards policy is still in draft stage, though there are hopes > that it may be approved soon. Even though the policy is a draft one, a > committee has begun work to evaluate various standards against the > mandatory criteria set in the draft. Can someone familiar with GIS data > formats and standards look at http://cots.nic.in/cots.tar.gz and see if GIS > standards are included in the same? If so, we should point this out to the > Kerala Government.
GML WMS WFS WCS CAT SFA already qualify as open standards and are in the approved list in the PresentationandArchival_04.pdf in the cots.tar.gz. -- Rgds JTD _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
