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<p>Hi Folks,<br>
The U.S Department of Interior has a website up soliciting ideas for improvement. Each idea gives registered users options to comment and vote on suggestions. There is a suggestion posted for the use of open source software, and I have just posted a suggestion for regular benchmarking of software ( commercial and open source) for OGC services and processing large datasets ( comments welcome!) .<br>
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For those who might be interested in making suggestions or commenting on the existing suggestions, the website is: <a href="http://openinterior.ideascale.com/">http://openinterior.ideascale.com/</a><br>
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Doug<br>
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Doug Newcomb <br>
USFWS<br>
Raleigh, NC<br>
919-856-4520 ext. 14 doug_newcomb@fws.gov<br>
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The opinions I express are my own and are not representative of the official policy of the U.S.Fish and Wildlife Service or Dept. of the Interior. Life is too short for undocumented, proprietary data formats.</body></html>