[TCMUG] Open Data and esri?

[Fawcett, David (MNIT)]

The OGC just adopted the GeoPackage format.  http://www.geopackage.org/

I know that both the proprietary and open source folks were pretty heavily involved in (the second round) of the formation of the spec.  I haven't heard much from either camp since the announcement, but I am curious to hear the perspectives of both people like Chris Holmes and ESRI.  Has anyone seen any blog posts or tweets about it?

David.

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From: Dan Little [mailto:theduckylittle at gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2014 10:09 AM
To: Fawcett, David (MNIT)
Cc: Brian Fischer; <nancread at mmcd.org>; tcmug at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [TCMUG] Open Data and esri?

ESRI does try to package some of the rendering/style information in their Geodatabases.  Right now the standard-open-geo interchange format is shapefiles.  And that could really use some updating (I don't think GeoJSON is a compelling alternative but that is probably another argument for another thread).

On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 9:48 AM, Fawcett, David (MNIT) <David.Fawcett at state.mn.us> wrote:
> I think that they got behind on the 'trend of open data' and other products have been gaining a lot of momentum in that space.  This new initiative appears to be an extension of ArcGIS Online.
>
> I agree with Brian though, open data and open data formats are two different things.  ESRI has continued to make conscious decisions to create and promote their own proprietary data formats.
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> Open Data was also a keynote at this weeks WI GIS conference from a City of Madison Council member and has been a policy other Cities are putting into place.
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> I think you have to make sure you are differeniating between what is meant by Open Data Initiatives and Open formats/standards.  They have different meanings in this context.
>
> Brian Fischer
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> On Feb 14, 2014, at 2:18 PM, "Nancy Read" <nancread at mmcd.org<mailto:nancread at mmcd.org>> wrote:
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> What have you-all heard about this? (from Andrew Turner)
>
> http://blogs.esri.com/esri/arcgis/2014/02/10/preview-of-open-data/
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> Good buzzwords, but so far my experience getting web services from Arc shops has been a bit iffy?
> - Nancy Read
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