In projects our research group is working on, there are GIS companies involved. So when we get there data (in Shape format), there is already a watermark present?
Robin Berjon schreef: > On Nov 14, 2005, at 10:31, Jeroen Vanattenhoven wrote: > > >>What about GIS data? Currently there are a lot of GIS projects using >>SVG. I can imagine that GIS companies would like to protect their >>data. >> > > > Once again, hiding access to the code does not protect your GIS data. > GIS companies have a long experience protecting the data they ship, > notably using some form of watermarking (often by introducing small > errors in the output). It was always easy to steal GIS data by having > a few fast "small hands" reproduce it based on a printed map, using > SVG adds nothing new (and using a binary format won't help either, > for instance it's quite trivial to get data out of a SWF file). > However whichever the means you use, if you use it widely you'll get > caught by the watermarks, because they'll show no matter whether you > took the data by copying a printed map, munging an SVG document, or > running a vector tracing program on a GIF. > Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/A77XvD/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/1U_rlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ---- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
