Why Spatial Data Infrastructures Fail
This is a bit OT, but Spatial Data Infrastuctures (SDIs) and all of the conceptual rigamarole around them are making quite a few open source specialists buckets of money at the moment. So, if you haven't read this article by Paul Ramsey you might find it interesting, as I did http://geotips.blogspot.com/2006/09/why-sdis-fail.html - I particularly like his section titled "Loosely Coupled Things are Easy to Break" -- I have lost count on how many bullshit discussions and talks I have heard by consultants in the last year bandy-ing the "loosely coupled" term about. Yes, it is good idea in many instances, but somehow the whole idea of achieving _something_ like hey, getting some data, is completely lost in the paranoiac haze of making the methods so "open" that nothing can really connect to them in a practical, functioning way.
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Come on now Kirk, i dont suppose i know any of these "consultants~!" ? :)
*actual* knowledge is inversely proportionate to the amount of buzzwords a person can use constantly in conversation. I'm sure you know a few that fit into this category
Take it easy, it will all be over soon ;p
Chris
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October 4, 2006 08:39 PM
Chris:
Yep, we all have to be buzzword compliant - and I do know quite a few, including myself. And, I must admit that I will never be as good a speaker as Rob Atkinson -- he is very good at it - full points given.
I sometimes get Philosophical and that is one of my weaknesses - as Bertrand Russell said "The best philosophy is simply common sense"...
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October 5, 2006 10:14 AM