Yes I think we all agree, Raphaël - it's not the CRS that makes the French Open Data portal authoritative, however if it's data was also published using CRS84 it's content might be more accessible to mainstream web developers ? Ed On Fri, 19 Feb 2016 at 09:00 Raphaël Troncy <raphael.troncy@eurecom.fr> wrote: > 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/ > -- *Ed Parsons* Geospatial Technologist, Google Google Voice +44 (0)20 7881 4501 www.edparsons.com @edparsons
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