[webmap-discuss] Roll Call

[Steve Morris]

Pat,

The initial Library of Congress NDIIPP project focus is on getting present
day geospatial data to be like antique maps a hundred years from now.  But
as for our library service, in terms of looking at things to serve out as
WMS or WFS we are in fact looking at what data is not served out by data
producers or commercial providers, and older data is definitely part of
that mix.  Superceded USGS topos are one thing we're working with.  More
compelling business cases are associated with things like serving last
year's or last month's land records data.  Later in the NDIIPP project
we'll be looking at how older data we've archived will fit into the
geospatial web services environment.  We are partnered with the NC OneMap
initiative which is focused on seamless access to state/local/federal data
via WMS (with some WFS coming)--some 70+ state and local agencies in NC
with WMS services now.

Steve

> Steve,
>
> You mean being able to serve some antiques maps via a WFS! :)
> Would be way cool!
> Pat.
>
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>> From: Steve Morris <steven_morris at ncsu.edu>
>> Organization: NCSU Libraries
>> Reply-To: <webmap-discuss at mail.osgeo.org>
>> Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 16:56:38 -0400
>> To: <webmap-discuss at mail.osgeo.org>
>> Subject: Re: [webmap-discuss] Roll Call
>>
>>
>> My name is Steve Morris and I'm coming at this from the library
>> perspective.  One area of focus is preservation of digital data, in a
>> cooperative project with Library of Congress as part of the National
>> Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation program.  In this
>> context we're mostly looking at preserving the underlying data, but also
>> starting to look at the issue of capturing cartographic representations
>> through web mapping systems (possibly eventually harvesting WMS tiles,
>> mining tile caches, etc.--how do we make a Web Map Context Document save
>> data state?)
>>
>> As a library we're also moving on from helping people find and use
>> geospatial data to helping them find and use geospatial web services,
>> and so are interested in discovery systems for web mapping content and
>> services, moving beyond content metadata issues to functional metadata
>> issues (what do these things do).   There's a growing market of
>> application developers that want help in finding content and services to
>> use.
>>
>> Another connection point is setting up our own map services.  We got out
>> of the business of running our own standard map server 5 years ago when
>> the data producers started doing it (after that our data copies were
>> usually stale in comparison) and are now focusing on serving out niche
>> WMS services (later perhaps WFS) for others to use.  Further along we'll
>> be interested in coming back full circle to web maps by building our own
>> mapping applications on top of the existing and emerging distributed
>> services.
>>
>> Also, as a sometimes Google Maps hobbyist on the side I've played at WMS
>> integration issues and am interested in that context in emerging tiling
>> and caching schemes.
>>
>> Steve
>>
>> Cameron Shorter wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>> Wecome to the webmap-discuss list.  Let's kick off with a role call.
>>> Introduce yourself and what project(s) you represent.
>>>
>>> For me: Cameron Shorter, from http://communitymapbuilder.org .
>>>
>>> My hope is that this list can be used for representatives from
>>> webmapping projects to share design and code and help each other
>>> address common problems.
>>>
>>> I hope that before we start new modules we consult with each other and
>>> avoid re-inventing the wheel.  Together, we should be able to identify
>>> and factor out common libraries.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Cameron Shorter
>>> http://cameron.shorter.net
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>>
>> --
>> Steve Morris
>> Head of Digital Library Initiatives
>> North Carolina State University Libraries
>> Phone: (919) 515-1361  Fax: (919) 515-3031
>> Steven_Morris at ncsu.edu
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