I'm giving a talk on open formats and why people should use them, and there will be some USGS people in the audience. I'm comfortable with talking about formats like Word and Excel and so forth, but I'm very new to GIS and I still find the list of formats overwhelming. I'd like to be able to give them a table, like "If you're thinking of making your data available in this proprietary format, please consider this open format instead."
A helpful person on #osm pointed me to http://www.gdal.org/ogr/ogr_formats.html http://www.gdal.org/formats_list.html for vector and raster formats respectively, so I'm trying to start from there and figure out which of the formats are open vs. closed and what might substitute for what. Has anybody already made such a table? I haven't been able to find one on the web. If it doesn't exist already, I'll try to make one, but I'd much rather use info created by someone who knows more. Thanks for any pointers! ...Akkana _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
