What is your opinion about this new technologies as part of official SDIs? The penetration of these solutions is grooving and market of PC first time decrease.
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Sure. Mobile internet (and Social Web) were not present when these initiatives started, but it is at the time to acknowledge their role - both in data consumption and collection. What an opportunity for eGovernment in general and eEnvironment as a part of it.
Still, I would see a need for an additional layer between classical/official SDIs and their access by mobile applications, especially because of the 'new' audience. The data provision site should be developed in parallel, but first we need convincing cases, i.e. there is a need to show that user contributed information is used... and this does not necessarily have to happen in an INSPIRE, Copernicus or GEOSS context.
In addition the review of the INSPIRE Directive comes up next year and GEOSS has to be developed beyond 2015. We live in times of change...
Yes, but there is also question, how to make current INSPIRE, GEOSS and Copernicus data easily available for users. It is not necessary VGI, but I am sure that soon also more and more public servants will work with mobile infrastructure.
WMS are only clever images and WFS seems not be best format for mobile equipment. What about opne inside of official community discussion about KML?
Sure. This is why I was talking about an additional layer. Maybe I should just have said additional interfaces. I strongly believe in the power of content negotiation, i.e. managing data in one place and then exposing it in multiple formats/representations depending on the client asking for it. In addition you might think about other protocols.
Then it is a question if such solutions could be, for example, part of the INSPIRE service suite - where I would not see a technical but maybe a resource problem on the providers site. Alternatively - and this would be the layer idea - you might add proxies up-front of the classical services.
We are trying to made some test in this direction as part of Habitats project. You can see something on our portal about this. See
http://www.habitats.cz/about
http://www.habitats.cz/hs-cat
The catalogue for Android is possible download here
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cz.hsrs.hscat
We developed also other such type of application, most popular is unfortunately working only in Czech, due availability of Czech Cadastre data
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cz.hsrs.parcelinfo&feature=more_from_developer&hl=en_GB
We are interested about cooperation is this area and also about similar ideas, pilots and tests.
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