I agree on your arguments, I think INSPIRE is a big chance for OS because it is based on open and public standards and there is no need for reverse engeniering vendor specific protocols and formats. For my part, I will contribute as much as I can and have convinced my biggest customer to rely on OSS
christian Rob Atkinson writes: > We're fairly close to the EU agenda within the application schemas > support - which is fairly well supported in Geotools, not yet yet in > geoserver. - most of the application schemas we are using as test case > and business drivers international efforts that will be adopted by > INSPIRE (eg GeoSciML) or use the ISO principles in a more > sophisticated fashion than the EU "lowest common denominator" Use > Case. > > Paying attention to this potential 'market" will be the make or break > of many FOSS spatial tools I suspect. > > Rob > > On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 8:25 PM, Vincent Heurteaux > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Salut Christian, >> >> We've the same concern and are involved in several project that needs >> INSPIRE conformance. MDweb2 is one of those (a metadata catalog >> application) and it's using extensively GT on it's backend. >> We're curently working on the metadata library to give it a full >> INSPIRE conformance, so if you've questions or comments about that, >> don't hesitate to chime us. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Vincent >> >> Le 22 janv. 09 à 08:11, Christian Müller a écrit : >> >>> As far as I am concerned, I would try to enhance geotools to better >>> support >>> the INSPIRE EU directive. >>> >>> This directive is from the European Commission and all member states >>> have to >>> build a national GDI using all these ISO, W3C and OGC standards. The >>> time >>> frame ends with 2015, but many national projects have been launched >>> already. >>> >>> As I have seen many countries and administrative units tend to use >>> the ESRI >>> stuff which forces the use of the ESRI server components. These >>> components >>> implement official interfaces but store the data in proprietary >>> manner. >>> Another fact is, that in my opinion, the server components are built >>> for MS >>> servers and only ported to other platforms, loosing performance. >>> >>> Another fact is that all European people have to support these >>> projects >>> paying their taxes. >>> >>> I would like to improve geotools to build a open source alternative, >>> especially for poorer countries. To be fair, the first target are my >>> customers, because I have to earn money, of course. >>> >>> I know this is heavy stuff, but I dont want to leave the battlefield >>> without >>> trying to do it better and avoiding "vendor lock ins" as we have >>> seen during >>> the last 20 years. >>> >>> >>> christian >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> This SF.net email is sponsored by: >>> SourcForge Community >>> SourceForge wants to tell your story. >>> http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Geotools-devel mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel >>> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> This SF.net email is sponsored by: >> SourcForge Community >> SourceForge wants to tell your story. >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword >> _______________________________________________ >> Geotools-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
