Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open File Formats and Proprietary Algorithms [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2009-08-22 Thread Cameron Shorter
Bruce, For your information, I expect to be talking to Chris, from the National Archives Australia this coming week. Apparently they store their data sets in Open formats, but don't know how to store GIS datasets in open formats. I'm hoping that we can help. Bruce Bannerman wrote: IMO: Ju

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open File Formats and Proprietary Algorithms[SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2009-08-21 Thread Considine, Michael
- From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Bruce Bannerman Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 8:15 PM To: 'OSGeo Discussions' Subject: RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open File Formats and Proprietary Algorithms[SEC=UNCLASSIFIED] IMO: Just another thoug

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open File Formats and Proprietary Algorithms [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2009-08-20 Thread Bruce Bannerman
IMO: Just another thought on this issue (though we do seem to be recycling arguments over the years...): Assuming that I have a very large archive of spatial data, be it imagery or any other spatial format and that I store my data in a variety of proprietary formats: In ten years from now