[geo-discuss] stopDWG

Tue Nov 28 15:41:33 UTC 2006

Paolo,
I know the problem of OpenDWG is quite hot at this time (and problems
related to 2.1.0 libraries not available).
I also do think that the problem of users is not how much a converter costs
(some of them cost less than 70€).
I think the real problems are little bit larger than having a
documented/supported/clean/... file format:

   - are public admin allowed to charge money for their base maps?
   - is the cost of data really related to the medium (as should be) or
   is it related to the extent (as in the Provincia di Ferrara example)?
   - is DWG enough for GI users? (many of them are practitioners using
   mainly CAD sw)

I am probably moving the focus of your discussion towards another point:
sorry for that, but I really think we need to enlarge the discussion, also
because now we (european) must face with something called "INSPIRE
directive".

pg

On 11/28/06, Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it> wrote:
>
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
>
> Sure? I know a few projects (mainly OpenDWG), but none are free (in the
> FSF sense).
> pc
>
> Piergiorgio Cipriano ha scritto:
> > DWG, of course, can be converted using free tools
> - --
> Paolo Cavallini
> email+jabber: cavallini at faunalia.it
> www.faunalia.it
> Piazza Garibaldi 5 - 56025 Pontedera (PI), Italy   Tel: (+39)348-3801953
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
> Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux)
> Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org
>
> iD8DBQFFbDUJ/NedwLUzIr4RAssCAJ9S88T64viqcFYd3Hh0/9cZTpqp/QCgkjfR
> p3aX4BMaOrknd+qb6O1jSts=
> =PD7s
> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
>
> _______________________________________________
> geo-discuss mailing list
> geo-discuss at lists.okfn.org
> http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/geo-discuss
>

-- 
Piergiorgio Cipriano
pg.cipriano at gmail.com
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/geo-discuss/attachments/20061128/3088c12e/attachment.html>