Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Standards] Live DVD and OGC standards

2013-07-08 Thread Newcomb, Doug
Dr. Baumann, Lighting my torch...;-) On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 5:12 PM, Baumann, Peter p.baum...@jacobs-university.de wrote: Finally, my personal 2 cents: I feel the future is with services, not formats will decide in future. Do I care, in my browser, whether I see PNG or JPEG or...GIF? http

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Standards] Live DVD and OGC standards

2013-07-08 Thread Baumann, Peter
absolutely so! If you want to access data items as a whole piece, and the item fits through the pipe conveniently then I am fully on board. However, sometimes we want to get pieces that fit the pipe (and convenient for us to chew), and we want something to be done - my favorite example on

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Standards] Live DVD and OGC standards

2013-07-08 Thread Jeff Harrison
Peter, Yep, sometimes users don't want to bite off the whole piece. Personally, I feel the future is a mix of open data formats (XML, CSV, JSON etc) and open data services... Regards, Jeff Jeff Harrison The Carbon Project Twitter: @JeffHarrison Sent from my iPhone On Jul 8, 2013, at 5:55

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Standards] Live DVD and OGC standards

2013-07-08 Thread Baumann, Peter
good point you make, Jeff - maybe we should see both as two sides of the same coin, actually. -Peter -- Dr. Peter Baumann- Professor of Computer Science, Jacobs University Bremen http://www.faculty.jacobs-university.de/pbaumann mail: p.baumann@jacobs-university.detel: +49-421-200-3178, fax: