Hey Rob, This sounds like an interesting observation. What do you mean by "normalized data management"? I would be interested to have a bit more of your vision to see where it meshes into my (GIS) world view.
--adrian On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 11:53 +1000, Rob Atkinson wrote: > Performance is important, but as IT history shows, its not the fastest > software or hardware that wins the race, it the one that best meets > people's needs and capacity to use it, and usually this is perception > based - will I get sacked or promoted for using it? > > GIS paradigms are fundamentally flawed from a data management > perspective, and every organisation I come across is trying to unravel > the mess created by "clone the geometry and hack" approach to data > management. If we provide some help there (by allowing more normalised > data management) there will IMHO be less need to stream large numbers > of features for the usual purpose of eyeballing the to try to > understand the data management failures of the past. > > So, getting back to where we were, but enabling improvements to allow > the data to be meaningful so I might not have to ask for the whole lot > every time, is in fact a huge step forward, and to be heartily > congratulated! > > Rob A > > > On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 5:13 AM, Jody Garnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > Andrea Aime wrote: > > Jody Garnett ha scritto: > >> Thanks Andrea; that email is actually worth a blog post :-) > For two > >> reasons; it is very informative; and it can start to get > people > >> excited about 2.5 :-) > > Is trying hard to get back to an already established > performance level > > worth a blog post? I'd blog about new achievements, getting > > back what we already had (by doing less) is the bare minimum > to avoid > > apologizing and be ashamed imho ;) > Well the story is interesting; it shows we care about > performance; and > it talks about the new feature model. Seems good to me. Also > talks about > the ability to work with unvalidated data which is a new > thing. > > Jody > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE > NOW! > Studies have shown that voting for your favorite open source > project, > along with a healthy diet, reduces your potential for chronic > lameness > and boredom. Vote Now at > http://www.sourceforge.net/community/cca08 > _______________________________________________ > Geotools-devel mailing list > Geotools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW! > Studies have shown that voting for your favorite open source project, > along with a healthy diet, reduces your potential for chronic lameness > and boredom. Vote Now at http://www.sourceforge.net/community/cca08 > _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list > Geotools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW! Studies have shown that voting for your favorite open source project, along with a healthy diet, reduces your potential for chronic lameness and boredom. Vote Now at http://www.sourceforge.net/community/cca08 _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list Geotools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
