<div>I thought an online conversion service would help outreach geospatial data. FWTools are nicely deployed but I experenced installation problems at user sites like missing libraries (e.g. ili2c.jar), setting environment variables (windows batch files) or not having access rights to install any program whatsoever.
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<div> <br>And what do you think about ii) validation and iii) metadata extraction?</div>
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<div>-- Stefan<br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">2007/3/15, Frank Warmerdam <<a href="mailto:warmerdam@pobox.com">warmerdam@pobox.com</a>>:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Stefan F. Keller wrote:<br>> Frank, all,<br>><br>> i) What about an online conversion service which uses fwtools,
<br>> especially the raster/vector formats? I'm thinking on something like<br>> <a href="http://media-convert.com">http://media-convert.com</a> <<a href="http://media-convert.com/">http://media-convert.com/</a>
> perhaps hosted by<br>> OSGEO?<br><br>Stefan,<br><br>This might be nice, but I don't see it as especially critical either<br>given that folks can download the software and do it themselves. In my<br>opinion then, this sort of functionality shouldn't hold back more critical
<br>work.<br><br>Best regards,<br>--<br>---------------------------------------+--------------------------------------<br>I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, <a href="mailto:warmerdam@pobox.com">warmerdam@pobox.com
</a><br>light and sound - activate the windows | <a href="http://pobox.com/~warmerdam">http://pobox.com/~warmerdam</a><br>and watch the world go round - Rush | President OSGeo, <a href="http://osgeo.org">http://osgeo.org
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