Pdf became an open standard, yes. But the software required to ensure
easy PDF/UA
http://www.pdfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/PDFUA-in-a-Nutshell-PDFUA.pdfcreation
(PDF accessibility for screen readers) is invariably paid i.e. Adobe
Acrobat Pro. Else, training on the following will have to take
I agree fully. I am as enraged by the pdfs as many others are :-)
What can be more enraging than staring at a scanned pdf, with tables of
numbers, which one is absolutely sure came out of a spreadsheet..??
I was hinting that if we say open standards, they could take recourse to
the fact that pdf
Want to echo the points made by a few folks on the 'tyranny of pdfs'
I have spent countless hours with free trial versions of pdf to excel
conversion software to wrangle election data from pdfs available online
into a usable excel format (or csv). and in the process infected my
computer with
Hi Arun,
This is a Gorgeous Map. I specially loved the colour combination.
Could you share the QGIS map (.qgs) file, so that I can create similar maps
for other areas?
Regards,
Devdatta Tengshe
On Monday, August 11, 2014 12:13:48 AM UTC+5:30, Arun Ganesh wrote:
This might interest folks
Hi all,
With reference to the ECI letter thread I feel it is time to awaken this
thread again.
On Tuesday, May 27, 2014 8:46:27 AM UTC+5:30, Nisha Thompson wrote:
THanks Dilip,
Those 5 points are right on. I would also add a point about ownership and
licensing.
I think formats is a
Hey All,
We have done a few things in the past with the NIC specifically this list
of data standards
http://datameet.org/standards-for-data/
Feedback to NDSAP
http://datameet.org/wiki/responsetondsap
But nothing in terms of a DataMeet standards for open data. Maybe we can
put together a few
hi all,
I personally feel this about PDF
It may have become an open format.
However this 'open' is relevant more for the people developing software for
and around pdf.
For a user it IS a good format for Viewing and Printing anything.
However if you want to use and further process the contents
Dear all,
Thanks a lot Rohith!
Let us have the meet-up in CBGA then. I guess this will make it easier for
people from CBGA to join in as well (who can help us a lot to read through
the budget datasets).
As for the budget datasests, as the new expenditure table (Union Budget
2014-15) are yet to
Nisha,
Happy to help but I don't know much barring a bit about web accessibility
from the disability perspective. Can research, collate etc - let me know.
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On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 2:46 PM, Nisha Thompson
Found this on today's HN feed. Can't imagine a day when every city has
something like this.
http://citydashboard.waag.org/
-Vaibhav
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Nice and appealing in a geeky sense :)
I would be happy to try this if we can figure out a way to make it connect
to average readers. Unfortunately, as far as policy makers are concerned,
there are not anywhere near using such data.
-Meera
On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 5:24 PM, Vaibhav P
Srinivas,
I think it will better if you can list out the tasks that other
contributors are expected to do.
Based on that and the individual capability and time may be some of us may
enlist ourselves for a particular task.
rgds
Dilip Damle
(New Delhi)
On Tuesday, August 12, 2014 4:40:46 PM
More ever, The factors they considered to represent the data is more/less
common to every city. I wish they had a framework in place to generalized
the visualization they had achieved depending on the city data. And if not
to argue, the factors they considered keeping city in mind looks promising
Well i haven`t laid out the complete sections of the document yet. But it
will be majorly on the following topics
1. Standards and Structured data storage of transport data
2. Different practices in transport applications/data analysis
3. Copy rights and licenses of data
4. Open data and Open
Hi,
This is just to add one more source for the Complete Boundary including
Disputed areas and the whole world,
ESRI ADMIN 2012 now includes the disputed areas inlcuding Aksai Chi and
Azad Kashmir and Northern areas separately rather than being shown as part
of the Other countries
it is
Thanks all for the feedback!
I'll tweak the letter and get started on an outline for standards and send
it out to people to help!
Vaishnavi,
Web accessibility to everyone is really important and should definitely not
be overlooked so your background is necessary!
Nisha
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