Tuesday 5 August 2014

OGC's new Urban Planning group releases draft charter

I have just submitted a comment on the following key issue for interoperability.


Data structures are simultaneously very deep and very wide. There are more professions, professionals, sectors and requirements than a single body can hope to create a set of super specifications for.

Therefore, to fulfil the group’s goal of:

3.       Avoid placing artificial technical barriers on use of Urban Planning data.


I propose that all software companies should commit to opening their data structures transparently and completely, as this artificial barrier of opacity is the single biggest barrier to interoperation within the various sectors that these companies encompass. 

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