[Geodata] Landcover-DB Shapefile Download

[Lorenzo Becchi]

Hi Stefan,
> Pls. look perhaps also at this thread from Raj about a - yet to be 
> defined - CSW profile 
> http://lists.eogeo.org/pipermail/dclite4g/2007-October/000006.html .
interesting reading, thx
>  
> Take also into consideration that CSW harvesting in GeoNetwork (GN) is 
> not finished yet and a main programmer of GN wrote by end of 
> september that OAI-PMH "outperforms CSW harvesting on all aspects.". 
> The "state of metadata" is currently less than desirable because even 
> OGC seems to be divided into several groups besides CSW, namely ebRIM.
I know personally Jeroen Ticheler, GN chief, and we've been talking 
about this idea of doing a thin client over CSW for a while.
If OGC is divided on CSW, it's time to test CSW in a practical way and 
show everybody how it can work fine and how it cannot.
We can do it fast and put the example and the code available to 
everybody. Sounds cool to me.
>  
> I'm concerned mainly about a common metadata model and then about the 
> protocol (harvesting vs. online-query?). So let's just do what serves 
> our needs.

my needs are: Standards.
I'm a consultant for UN FAO, I need Standards. I'm a consultant for 
institutions (in Europe read INSPIRE) I need Standards. I'm rarely 
consultant for companies, they seem not to need standards but they need ;-)

I don't want to say everybody has to use standards but if we want FOSS 
GIS to quit the niche, we should provide wide support to standards. If 
somebody here dreams to see a complete and scalable SDI made of FOSS, 
he/she will have to deal to Open Standards.

If standards don't fit our needing we can change/enhance them. We are 
part of the industry and there's an apposite list (osgeo-standards [1]) 
to discuss about it.

ciao
Lorenzo

[1] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/standards





>  
> -- Stefan
>  
> 2007/10/8, Lorenzo Becchi <lorenzo at ominiverdi.com 
> <mailto:lorenzo at ominiverdi.com>>:
>
>
>     > Martin Spott wrote:
>     >
>     >
>     >> I know, this topic surfaces at least once a month - see Frank W.'s
>     >> posting "Data migration" or David B.'s recent FOSS4G summary of
>     open
>     >> issues "Themes and Direction from FOSS4G".
>     >>
>     >
>     > ....  not to forget Lorenzo B.'s recent request of a "OSgeo
>     Catalogue",
>     >
>
>     thx, Martin
>
>     data.freemap.in <http://data.freemap.in/> is a good place to store
>     metadata easily.
>
>     anyway, I still think that a CSW interface is needed more then ever
>     because it's OGC compliant.
>     I still think we should try to use OGC standards and if they don't fit
>     our needing, give a hand to make them better.
>
>     I hope to have the time to help Telascience guys to set up a demo
>     with
>     GeoNetwork.
>     I would like to develop a thin CSW client for OpenLayers, it
>     should not
>     be that difficult.
>     :-)
>
>     ciao
>     Lorenzo
>
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