Comments on: Terrafuture featured on the Very Spatial Podcast

By: Ed

Ed — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 19:04:46 +0000

Lorant,

Happy to comment.. the auto-google thing I guess is a reflection of the view of some people that Google is ‘trying to take over the world” and when you get down to if google’s motive is to increasing it’s advertising revenue. I personally don’t have any problem with this whatsoever – but some people I think saw google mistakenly as a source of ‘free data”.

I can’t wait to see what happens next.. Google has had such a positive impact on the GI industry it will be interesting to see how the “old guard” respond.

By: Lorant Czaran

Lorant Czaran — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 23:06:23 +0000

Interesting comment from Warsaw!
I would have preferred if Ed ellaborated on the “building anti-google sentiment” a bit, as I am not aware of such… Except the anti-sentiment generated by “enemies of the open skies”, but I might not know it all…
Also, I read that Google is also having a WMS-enabled new client, and WFS could come soon. I am not saying they were not late in going “open”, we have repeatedly asked for that too, but maybe this will help in having Google also more “open standards oriented” in the future…
But let’s see what this new ESRI product will offer… I wonder why all well-paying ESRI customers are not already be beta-testing it…

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