- From: Raphaël Troncy <raphael.troncy@eurecom.fr>
- Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2016 10:00:14 +0100
- To: Ed Parsons <eparsons@google.com>, George Percivall <gpercivall@opengeospatial.org>
- Cc: Jon Blower <j.d.blower@reading.ac.uk>, Frans Knibbe <frans.knibbe@geodan.nl>, SDW WG <public-sdw-wg@w3.org>, Chris Little <chris.little@metoffice.gov.uk>, Jeremy Tandy <jeremy.tandy@gmail.com>
Hello Ed, > Thanks for your comments, you are of course correct that > much authoritative data held in various SDI' are published in local CRS > with various levels of visibility on the web. However they now represent > a very small proportion of the spatial data now on the web, I wonder how > many minutes of geocoded instagram pictures is equivalent to the French > Open Data Portal. Of course, I'm arguing that the mere quantity argument should be balanced with the authoritative and provenance argument. The French Open Data Portal attracts thousands of regular web developers that are highly encouraged (via hackatons, etc.) to re-use those high quality datasets: the ultimate administrative decomposition of the territory, the ultimate statistics in terms of employment, census, health, security, education, that all ministers provide, etc. There are already hundreds of applications that re-use those datasets, just go to the portal, you can see them all including their social ranking. You can also read the frequent complains about the average web developers that fight regularly on this issue, interpreting accurately the coordinates provided in those datasets. This is not about professional geospatialists, this is about average web developers that want to develop apps using authoritative data. I'm arguing that those people are largely part of our audience. Raphaël -- Raphaël Troncy EURECOM, Campus SophiaTech Data Science Department 450 route des Chappes, 06410 Biot, France. e-mail: raphael.troncy@eurecom.fr & raphael.troncy@gmail.com Tel: +33 (0)4 - 9300 8242 Fax: +33 (0)4 - 9000 8200 Web: http://www.eurecom.fr/~troncy/
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