<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">IMO:</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Cameron,</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I think that this is only a simplistic
part of the 'search' debate.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">It will certainly not replace the need
for quality spatial metadata or metadata catalogues. </font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">When you look at the potential shown
by OGC's </font><font size=2><tt>OWS-5</tt></font><font size=2 face="sans-serif">
work, I suspect that the need for quality and definitive catalogues / registries
will increase (dramatically).</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">For further comments, see my response
to Adena's post at:</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">http://apb.directionsmag.com/archives/4293-GoogleESRI-Announcement-in-Plain-English.html</font>
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Bruce Bannerman<br>
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<br><font size=1 face="sans-serif">Sent by: aust-nz-bounces@lists.osgeo.org</font>
<p><font size=1 face="sans-serif">27/05/2008 06:19 AM</font>
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<div align=right><font size=1 face="sans-serif">To</font></div>
<td><font size=1 face="sans-serif">shoaib <saburq@gmail.com></font>
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<td><font size=1 face="sans-serif">Re: [Aust-NZ] ESRI/Google indexing spatial
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<br><font size=2><tt>OSGeo Standards,<br>
From the Australian/New Zealand discussions about developing Geonetwork
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comes this announcement:<br>
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shoaib wrote:<br>
> On the topic of Web2.0 at Where2.0 conference last week, ESRI and<br>
> Google made a joint announcement stating a partnership to start<br>
> indexing spatial data and spatial web services on Google search<br>
> technology. The implications of this are huge from the perspective
of<br>
> the industry as a whole. This opened a lot of questions about the<br>
> place of OGC Catalogue Services.<br>
> <br>
Does anyone know if ESRI/Google will be using Standards to achieve their
<br>
indexing?<br>
Ie, can Open Source packages like Geonetwork plug into this new work?<br>
Should we be worrying about vendor lock out?<br>
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> Aust-NZ mailing list<br>
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> Aust-NZ@lists.osgeo.org<br>
> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/aust-nz<br>
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