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

[munkeyfreenix batcat]

yeah, you're kinda correct on that. i read up more on em after i sent off
that email.

but that sensors thing....damn cool.

On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 3:26 PM, deleted <arbzed at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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