yeah, you're kinda correct on that. i read up more on em after i sent off that email. <br><br>but that sensors thing....damn cool.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 3:26 PM, deleted <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:arbzed@gmail.com">arbzed@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Oh, also, I agree that SWE is rad as hell!<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 3:21 PM, deleted <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:arbzed@gmail.com" target="_blank">arbzed@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I'd put them more on par with the W3C, ANSI or IEEE.<br><br> EFF works doggedly to protect civil liberties. FSF enforces copyleft and runs political campaigns to promote free software.<br><br>OGC is a consortium of geospatial industry insiders who have had some success banding together against ESRI, which has historically been the Oracle of the GIS world. They are really good at holding meetings and publishing voluminous night-impenetrable standards documents, but nothing they do is explicitly socially or politically progressive.<br>
<br>Standards are good. Monopoly-busting is good. The OGC has been instumental in enabling interoperability of the free & open source geospatial tools that are available today, which is awesome, and really important.<br>
<br>But EFF it ain't.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div></div><div>On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 12:09 PM, munkeyfreenix batcat <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:munkeyfreenix.batcat@gmail.com" target="_blank">munkeyfreenix.batcat@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div></div><div>Given the new platform of virtual terrain and omnipresence of GPS, the OGC (Open-GeoSpatial Consortium) is on par with the EFF and FSF, in my opinion.<br>
<br>Not only are they making standards for open-source GIS and mapping tools, but now they are defining Sensor Web Enablement to give us all access to sensors everywhere, via the web.<br>
<br><a href="http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/markets-technologies/swe" target="_blank">http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/markets-technologies/swe</a><br><a href="http://spatialnews.geocomm.com/dailynews/2009/may/07/news4.html" target="_blank">http://spatialnews.geocomm.com/dailynews/2009/may/07/news4.html</a><br>
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