On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Chris Holmes wrote:
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>> Interesting ideas.
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>> Consider whether to only allow users to add data (such as uploading to
>> YouTube), or whether people can interact in the data (YouTube members
>> can comment on videos by others) or interact on the map (
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> Interesting ideas.
>
> Consider whether to only allow users to add data (such as uploading to
> YouTube), or whether people can interact in the data (YouTube members
> can comment on videos by others) or interact on the map (letting people
> modify objects which already exist).
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Ye
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> For sure. I tend to discount traditional metadata a bit, in order to
> emphasize that there's lots of kinds of valuable data about data, and lots
> of it we can derive and encourage. But I'd love to see wiki type editing
> and just nicer more intuitive editors of more structured metadata, alo
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> > How? Through users doing what they do on an infrastructure that
> > supports them. Think youtube - with most viewed, highest rated, most
> > favorited. Imagine GeoServer letting users create maps of sets of
> > layers, with different styles and uploaded data. And imagine them
> > rati
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> The central idea is to get at the things SDI initiatives want - people
> sharing data. Most of the SDI initiatives I've seen have started with
> Metadata (get lots of catalogs), then focused on Users (get people
> filling out metadata and searching for it), and finally end up on Data
> (it wil
One thing I've been thinking about a lot is how to encourage more user
collaboration in geospatial information. I've given some recent talks
on this, and have found a lot of resonance, so want to start to actually
build some of the ideas in to GeoServer (mostly as extensions, so we're
not poll
