Proposal to change "Geospatial Expert" to "Spatial Data Custodian"

Hi Ed. Thanks for your comments.

> I would replace the term "Geosptial Experts" with "Spatial Data
Custodians" you might be an expert without the responsibility  to publish
data to an SDI or you might be a creator of VGI and not an expert !

I get your point, but our emphasis is on those people who commonly use SDIs
in their routine work. I don't think we even thought of non-experts
providing VGI.

Am looking for others in the WG to endorse this before making a change.
Please respond with +1 (or 0 or -1) to vote; comments are optional.

Jeremy

On Wed, 6 Jan 2016 at 23:12 Ed Parsons <eparsons@google.com> wrote:

> Dear Ed(s)
>
> Thanks for all your hard work, please find my comments for your
> consideration, outright rejection and ridicule...
>
> 1.1 General introduction
>
> I would replace the term "Geosptial Experts" with "Spatial Data
> Custodians" you might be an expert without the responsibility  to publish
> data to an SDI or you might be a creator of VGI and not an expert !
>
> Add a link to illustrate what a linked data approach is perhaps
> http://www.w3.org/standards/semanticweb/data
>
> 3. Scope
>
> "Spatial data is typically well structured" - maybe for many SDI
> publishers, but part of the problem with developing a "spatial ontology to
> rule them all" is that many of the mainstream applications of spatial data
> are interested in less well structured spatial data - "Teenage twitter
> users currently downtown"
>
> BP1
>
> I think a narrative around the ability to link to a entity/spatialthing is
> useful here, as a municipal engineer can I send a ink to a individual
> street light in an email to a contractor ?  Identification of resources is
> the "means to the end not the end itself" - sorry about the use of this
> idiom <http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/a+means+to+an+end>
>
> BP3
>
> This is where GIS has traditionally been the tool of choice, I agree we
> need to accept this as best practice despite the potential pitfalls...
>
> BP 8
>
> I think we have to be very careful with this section, we are rather loose
> with language.. This is quite a good starting point as to why people use
> different CRS..
> https://www.mapthematics.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=251
>
> BP10
>
> Are we looking for practical measures like CEP or RMS, or a more abstract
> approach ?
>
> To be continued....
>
> Ed
>
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