On 05/05/2007, at 3:54 AM, Mike Liebhold wrote:
Allan Doyle just pointed out to me that the geo community has been working on meta problems for decades with precious little to show for it, and thatthe answer is "small pieces, loosely joined", and new geo communities seems to be doing that with the exception of 3D gis beyond geodetics and terrain models. x3d earth is the only group organizing, around a ressurected geo-vrml - which may be a non-starter. and beyond that - none of the other fora mentioned, collada, flightplan, etc. are really the right fora
That's the basis of my frustration... it's been decades, and nothing much shows for the time. In some ways, geo-* is even worse than AI or the Semantic Web, yet I still think this area shows the greatest practical promise.
Only geo-* has data, presentation, action and everything concrete that makes it ready to be born and turn into something really fantastic. Other fields like AI and Semantic have handwaving areas of "and if we could do"...
Like cutting a umbilical cord, I feel the frustration of "time to cut the shit, and deliver the baby". Let's have the conferences about what we have, because there are no remaining grey areas before we can do it.
This is an inflection point for 3D GIS... powerful forces (google, ESRI, MS, et. al.) are staged, and the FOSS4G is not really active at all seriously considering 3D GIS as a framework for 3d hypermedia, mobile augmented reality, sensor webs, etc
It's all there. It's all concrete. Let's do it! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
