[Geodata] Re: Online conversion and validation services on OSGEO?

[Stefan F. Keller]

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.

And what do you think about ii) validation and iii) metadata extraction?

-- Stefan

2007/3/15, Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com>:
>
> Stefan F. Keller wrote:
> > Frank, all,
> >
> > i) What about an online conversion service which uses fwtools,
> > especially the raster/vector formats? I'm thinking on something like
> > http://media-convert.com <http://media-convert.com/> perhaps hosted by
> > OSGEO?
>
> Stefan,
>
> This might be nice, but I don't see it as especially critical either
> given that folks can download the software and do it themselves.  In my
> opinion then, this sort of functionality shouldn't hold back more critical
> work.
>
> Best regards,
> --
>
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>
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