Ed Parson non è imparziale e tira acqua al suo mulino (quello nuovo … Google), ma il suo punto di vista è interessante e condivisibile, anche se non totalmente:
Imagine waking up in the beautiful Portuguese city of Porto and finding out the past two years of your life were a dream… All that talk of GeoRSS, Map Mash-ups, KML, User generated My Maps, The GeoWEB and Paris Hilton were all part of a dream.
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We it felt a bit like that on the first day of the annual European Commission GI and GIS Workshop.
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INSPIRE is, contrary to all of the fuss last year drummed up by some in the UK, quite tightly focused on the supply of harmonised environmental geospatial data to the institutions of the European Commission, by public sector organisations in the member states. - There is no “public” interface here and the citizens are not seen as major customers for INSPIRE services.
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Piergiorgio Cipriano
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