Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Should OSGeo get involved in the Information Architecture realm and nurture the development of definitive spatial ontologies?

2008-05-25 Thread Miles Fidelman
Bruce Bannerman wrote: We need robust debate on these types of issues if we are to progress them. Ok.. let's try this :-) I see that there are two main ways of utilising spatial information: - producing a pretty picture that helps people understand an issue. We have a number of types of pr

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Should OSGeo get involved in the Information Architecture realm and nurture the development of definitive spatial ontologies?

2008-05-25 Thread Bruce Bannerman
Hi Jo, Thank you for your considered reply (...and no, I don't consider it trollish ;-) ) We need robust debate on these types of issues if we are to progress them. OK, I'll try and put some more context on the original query. I see that there are two main ways of utilising spatial infor

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Should OSGeo get involved in the Information Architecture realm and nurture the development of definitive spatial ontologies?

2008-05-22 Thread jo
dear Bruce, all, On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 09:20:08AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Rob Atkinson has proposed that OSGeo may be the right body to nurture the >development of a set of consistent ontologies describing commonly used >spatial entities. >This could make it much easier f

[OSGeo-Discuss] Should OSGeo get involved in the Information Architecture realm and nurture the development of definitive spatial ontologies?

2008-05-21 Thread Bruce . Bannerman
IMO: The discussion below has been extracted from a thread currently running on OSGeo-AustNZ that is exploring options for supporting the development of an ANZLIC Profile to GeoNetwork. This related discussion may be of interest to other members of the discuss list. Rob Atkinson has propo