Comments on: What did an SDI every do for us… http://www.edparsons.com/2006/06/what-did-an-sdi-every-do-for-us/ The blog of Ed Parsons, Geographer. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:11:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: edparsons.com » Blog Archive » UK SDI interest begins to develop http://www.edparsons.com/2006/06/what-did-an-sdi-every-do-for-us/#comment-426 edparsons.com » Blog Archive » UK SDI interest begins to develop Tue, 04 Jul 2006 23:17:46 +0000 http://www.edparsons.com/?p=268#comment-426 [...] Just a few weeks ago I blogged that the UK seems to have a blind-spot when is comes to thinking or debate about Spatial Data Infrastructures. So I was really please to see the AGI are running an UK SDI event tomorrow. [...] [...] Just a few weeks ago I blogged that the UK seems to have a blind-spot when is comes to thinking or debate about Spatial Data Infrastructures. So I was really please to see the AGI are running an UK SDI event tomorrow. [...]

]]> By: Ed http://www.edparsons.com/2006/06/what-did-an-sdi-every-do-for-us/#comment-425 Ed Fri, 23 Jun 2006 13:27:37 +0000 http://www.edparsons.com/?p=268#comment-425 Allan, Ah yes... google as an SDI - now that would not play very well in certain quarters :-) ed Allan,

Ah yes… google as an SDI – now that would not play very well in certain quarters :-)

ed

]]> By: Allan Doyle http://www.edparsons.com/2006/06/what-did-an-sdi-every-do-for-us/#comment-424 Allan Doyle Fri, 23 Jun 2006 11:58:25 +0000 http://www.edparsons.com/?p=268#comment-424 Good thing you didn't slip and write: "In some ways one can think of Google Earth as a cross organisation / cross border enterprise GIS, so mashups working on a common view of shared data. It is more than just the technical solution to interoperability however, Google EarthI also requires all the organisational and operational processes and agreements to be in place so that the common shared view of data is truly dynamic and more than a data snapshot." :) Good thing you didn’t slip and write: “In some ways one can think of Google Earth as a cross organisation / cross border enterprise GIS, so mashups working on a common view of shared data. It is more than just the technical solution to interoperability however, Google EarthI also requires all the organisational and operational processes and agreements to be in place so that the common shared view of data is truly dynamic and more than a data snapshot.”
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]]> By: Julian Gall http://www.edparsons.com/2006/06/what-did-an-sdi-every-do-for-us/#comment-423 Julian Gall Fri, 23 Jun 2006 07:53:04 +0000 http://www.edparsons.com/?p=268#comment-423 >>culturally we don’t really like sharing Is it really that, as a national culture, we don't like sharing? It may have more to do with the mindset of those in government (and those who work for the government). There has always been a paternalistic reluctance to embrace freedom of information. In addition, we haven't adopted the strong feeling in the US that anything done by the government has already been paid for by the people and therefore ought to be available to them free. >>culturally we don’t really like sharing

Is it really that, as a national culture, we don’t like sharing? It may have more to do with the mindset of those in government (and those who work for the government). There has always been a paternalistic reluctance to embrace freedom of information. In addition, we haven’t adopted the strong feeling in the US that anything done by the government has already been paid for by the people and therefore ought to be available to them free.

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