[Noisebridge-discuss] why we should all love the OGC

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Oh, also, I agree that SWE is rad as hell!

On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 3:21 PM, deleted <arbzed at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'd put them more on par with the W3C, ANSI or IEEE.
>
>  EFF works doggedly to protect civil liberties.  FSF enforces copyleft and
> runs political campaigns to promote free software.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> But EFF it ain't.
>
> On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 12:09 PM, munkeyfreenix batcat <
> munkeyfreenix.batcat at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/markets-technologies/swe
>> http://spatialnews.geocomm.com/dailynews/2009/may/07/news4.html
>>
>>
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