[Qgis-user] wishing for accurate lattitude/longitude from a cell phone

[Falk Huettmann]

Dear Chris et al,

...by using certain specific/clumsy formats -poorly documented ones - you
can virtually exclude
people from data and from Remote Sensing data and GPS etc.
Google Earth as a  classic example, and GARMIN as another, or ESRI files,
certainly NetCDF or many R packages even.

In reality, you will see that all what is shiny and new - in demand- is to
be sold, and usually not well publically shared.
It takes many steps to get around it, if even that.

While I have used OpenStreet maps, it was very clumsy; more bad examples
exist, e.g. lack of metadata.
Whatever companies tell ya, they want to sell more stuff (sell PR, or might
face bankruptcy otherwise).

And it is my hope that with QGIS we get to open access and open source,
of these data, and any other.

My format of choice is plain and simple ASCII text files for those reasons,
perhaps using the
Virtual Machine as a platform forever (well, as long as that is reasonable,
but not commercially driven).

Keep me posted please; very best & thanks
     Falk Huettmann


On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 10:19 AM chris hermansen <clhermansen at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Falk and list;
>
> On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 10:48 AM Falk Huettmann <fhuettmann at alaska.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> Dear List,
>> I think these GPS high resolution suggestions are great;
>> thanks.
>>
>> But my real interest/question here is, how can we bring it home to QGIS ?
>>
>> I see GARMIN essentially trying to sell and impose on us their GIS system,
>> same applies to OpenStreet Maps etc etc. So they try to privatize
>> geography and public space and information,
>> which I am mostly opposed to.
>>
>
> How is OpenStreetMap (I assume when you say "OpenStreet Maps" you mean
> "OpenStreetMap") trying "to privatize geography and public space and
> information"?   Not trying to start an argument here; this just seems
> completely contrary to what I know of OpenStreetMap, whose data is licensed
> under https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1.0/
>
>
>> Instead, I wonder how we can use QGIS and release the commercial
>> data into Open Source and public use ?
>> That's for HIGH RESOLUTION data discussed here.
>>
>> Thanks for such questions and solutions.
>>
>
> [stuff deleted]
>
>
> --
> Chris Hermansen · clhermansen "at" gmail "dot" com
>
> C'est ma façon de parler.
>
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