On 2/9/07, Chris Holmes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip>
Indeed it would be nice just to have an
official schema for KML.
Like this? http://code.google.com/apis/kml/schema/kml21.xsd ;) But I don't know if you meaning something more than that. Barry best regards,
Chris Philippe Duchesne wrote: > isn't that a bit in contradiction with the fact that so far, Google > hasn't been trying much to harmonize KML with GML, for instance ? > > I agree that in many cases KML is a better choice than GML, because of > GML's complexity. But I feel like it would not have been much of an > effort to define KML as a subset/profile of GML. And thereby get > immediate interoperability. Am I wrong here ? > > --p. > > On 2/8/07, Mike Liebhold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> http://www.directionsmag.com/article.php?article_id=2399&trv=1 >> >> A Google View of Data Sharing >> By Joe Francica >> Directions Mag >> (Feb 01, 2007) >> >> [snip] >> "At the Map World Forum in Hyderabad, India, Michael Jones, chief >> technologist of Google Earth, shared his views on the benefits of >> standards. Google is an Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) principal >> member and supports efforts to encourage standards adoption. Google has >> a "democratized" view of data sharing which begins with the vast amount >> of information that has already been captured by those working in GIS. >> Jones believes in ways to provide better access to those data. He >> explained that most geospatial data today is locked away in workstations >> managed by proprietary software. He was perhaps referring to those data >> controlled by local and state government departments. "We have to >> envision a future world where data is published," he said. "We may want >> to knock on the door of the Survey of India and ask them what data they >> want to share with the world." Jones' vision is to have "all" geospatial >> information available to the world and indexed in a way that it can be >> accessed by those who need it. "Google has a mission to allow more data >> to be available and interoperable," he said. " >> >> . . . >> >> [snip] >> _______________________________________________ >> Geowanking mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking >> > _______________________________________________ > Geowanking mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking > > !DSPAM:1003,45cc495934541804284693! > -- Chris Holmes The Open Planning Project http://topp.openplans.org _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
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