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GIS Day - 2009

James Fee
November 28, 2009

GIS Day - 2009

James Fee

November 28, 2009
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  1. Sharing Your Spatial Data or How to Push Your GIS

    Files Through a Round Hole and Live to Tell About it!
  2. Users Demand Format Agnosticism • Freedom to use any application

    • Open formats • User ownership of data
  3. What Works for the Layer Package •Compressed format shares well

    •Includes symbology •Metadata and preview thumbnails
  4. What Works for the Layer Package •Compressed format shares well

    •Includes symbology •Metadata and preview thumbnails •Easy to create with ArcMap
  5. Problems with the Layer Package •Uses the closed ESRI Layer

    file for symbology •Some files converted to closed File Geodatabase format
  6. Problems with the Layer Package •Uses the closed ESRI Layer

    file for symbology •Some files converted to closed File Geodatabase format •Undocumented
  7. Example GSS body: { fillStyle: "#f6f6f6", lineWidth: 0 }, node:

    { fillStyle: "#ddd", strokeStyle: "#090", lineWidth: 0, radius: 1 }, way: { strokeStyle: function() { return "#"+ (parseInt((this.user), 36).toString(16)+"000000").truncate(6,"" ) }, lineWidth: function() { if (this.tags.get('width')) return parseInt(this.tags.get('width')) else return 1 }, fillStyle: "white"
  8. More Choice and Better Selection It’s your choice Photo by

    syntheticaperture - http://flic.kr/p/4b4PcM