Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Data format frustration - too general!

2010-08-04 Thread Cameron Shorter
Further to Jody's comment, CityGML is an application profile (also referred to as a community schema), which provides more details about a specific domain than GML. I describe it in more detail here: http://cameronshorter.blogspot.com/2008/10/community-schemas-making-sense-out-of.html On 04/08/

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Data format frustration - too general!

2010-08-04 Thread Ari Jolma
berryman kirjoitti: For instance, I'm not just interested in the location of streets, I'm interested in the location of each lane. I also need to know how street topology and traffic direction so that I can make path planning determinations. Finally, it would even be ideal if I could encode

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Data format frustration - too general!

2010-08-04 Thread Homan, Thomas
oun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of berryman Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 5:08 PM To: discuss@lists.osgeo.org Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Data format frustration - too general! Hello, I am hope to use GIS for a traffic analysis program that I am involved with. After having looked at a couple we

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Data format frustration - too general!

2010-08-04 Thread Giovanni Manghi
Did you has a look to openstreetmap? cheers -- Giovanni -- On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 17:07 -0700, berryman wrote: > Hello, > > I am hope to use GIS for a traffic analysis program that I am involved with. > After having looked at a couple weeks worth of GIS resources, I still feel > like I haven't

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Data format frustration - too general!

2010-08-04 Thread Jody Garnett
The idea of geometry is the same for each system from national GIS datasets; to small datasets used to track each fire hydrant for a city. You are correct you need a bit of information about each data set (units, projection, when the data when collected and what accuracy). You may consider look

[OSGeo-Discuss] Data format frustration - too general!

2010-08-03 Thread berryman
Hello, I am hope to use GIS for a traffic analysis program that I am involved with. After having looked at a couple weeks worth of GIS resources, I still feel like I haven't found what I'm looking for and it's time to get some human input. The main source of my frustration is that all of the st