Yes I agree. I was talking to a group of people from the agriculture ministry and related institutions and universities here in NL yesterday, and no-one had heard of OpenStreetMap, even though they handle geospatial data almost daily. This is a matter of supplying professionals with an easy way in (OGC services, MXD files) as much as having good OSM advocates with ties to professional GIS.
martijn van exel http://schaaltreinen.nl/ twitter / skype: mvexel flickr: rhodes 2010/1/18 Simone Cortesi <sim...@cortesi.com>: > 2010/1/18 Iván Sánchez Ortega <i...@sanchezortega.es>: >>> Does the question even make sense? I'm not very good at ESRI lingo, >>> but apparently it's some kind of stylesheet. >> >> Long answer: a .mxd file is a "project" file. It's nothing but a bunch of >> links to data files (or database connections, or WMS/WFS links), and >> the "stylesheets" applied to each one, plus the layering order, plus >> (optionally) VB scripts embedded in the project file. >> >> A .mxd file is not data. And OSM is All About The Data(tm). > > If this is something that can easily be done, and this will lead to > have a more wider spread use of OSM in the corporate world, thne I > think it's worth the effort. > > -- > -S > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk