http://www.galdosinc.com Powering the GeoWeb Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:59:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The point in this blog posting has been made previously but I believe that it merits repeating, namely that points in a point space (e.g. surface of the earth, or on a model of the surface of the earth) are not the same thing as the coordinates that may be ... http://www.galdosinc.com/archives/646 Vancouver city council has endorsed the principles of making its data open and accessible to everyone where possible, adopting open standards for that data and considering open source software when replacing existing applications. The CBC News article "Vancouver mulls making itself an 'open city'" provides some background on the motion. The City ... http://www.galdosinc.com/archives/638 Overview A great deal of discussion has taken place in the OGC and ISO TC/211, over the past several years, with respect to coordinate reference systems.  Much of this discussion has been confusing, and many of the ideas discussed are subtle and hard to express.  This has resulted in less generality ... http://www.galdosinc.com/archives/615 Issue Date: April - 2009, Posted On: 5/1/2009 Read Ron Lake's article discussing the interconnectedness of global resources, and whether and how geography might impact the economic and political success of nation states. The full article is available in GeoWorld's Building the GeoWeb column for April 2009. http://www.galdosinc.com/archives/612 Talking with VerySpatial, Ron Lake shares his view of the GeoWeb as being a digital nervous system for the planet. Mr. Lake explains how the theme for this year's conference, Cityscapes, was selected to emphasize ways that the GeoWeb can support high value sharing and collaboration of urban infrastructure data ... http://www.galdosinc.com/archives/603 Some things in life always take a lot longer than one would expect.  Twenty five years ago, I was involved in developing spatial data infrastructure architectures in various parts of the world.  At the time, key important geospatial technologies included conflation and geometric matching, spatial indexing, and data format conversion.  ... http://www.galdosinc.com/archives/598 February 19, 2009 Joe Francica, Editor-in-Chief and Vice Publisher of Directions Magazine, recently wrote about his experience in attending the Map World Forum (MWF) in Hyderabad, India. In the article, he quotes from Ron Lake's talk where Mr. Lake suggested that SDI initiatives should begin at the city level where most ... http://www.galdosinc.com/archives/592 Professor AR Dasgupta, Managing Editor (Honorary), quotes Ron Lake in his Viewpoint article "The view from over here - India and NSDI" Download the PDF file to read the full article: ess_printers_nrcan_gc_ca_20090408_125207 [PDF - 1591 KB] http://www.galdosinc.com/archives/584 At the recent World Map Forum in Hyderabad, I presented a paper in the SDI Seminar entitled “Spatial Data Infrastructures – A New Approach”.  In the talk I noted that, in some sense, SDI technology and standards had suffered from focusing on the wrong problem space and thus, at least ... http://www.galdosinc.com/archives/579 A well known philosopher, commenting on the vagaries of human interaction, once made the remark that, on seeing another person coming towards him, he thought either "not me" or "another me".  I believe that this simple and, I suppose, obvious distinction has far reaching implications for the adoption of technology, ... http://www.galdosinc.com/archives/576