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The Purchase of GeoTechnology
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Vector One and Spatial Sustain share their thoughts in a dual entry named "If you were a customer, how would you approach the purchase of new geotechnology for your organisation?"
From V1: "I would be considering a geotechnology purchase not as an end in itself, but in relationship to my needs and goals. - The Processes. Particularly those oriented around Internet services and the future.”
Standardisation is something that is important to me. But, I am not willing to sacrifice performance for it. True, there is dance between the two. I see performance as a differentiator. It allows me to perform functions and routines other software may not. "
From SS: "Users and vendors now understand these cost justifications better than ever before. The work done by the Geospatial Information Technology Association [GITA] on return on investment studies has fostered a workbook, workshops and detailed spreadsheets to adequately quantify the returns."
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The ERDAS TITAN has a pretty informative write up on what geospatial web services are and why should we use them. Here is an excerpt from their writeup : "Geospatial consumers need to easily ingest geo-data into a variety of desktop, Internet and 3D virtual globe applications they use in their daily work. Impediments in data delivery brought on by access or performance issues are thorns in the side of GeoJoe trying to be efficient…
On the other end of the pipe, data authors and publishers want to rapidly distribute data to their consumers (i.e. their customers, clients, users, purchasers, general public, etc.). These folks, from aerial data providers to national mapping agencies to the one-man geo-shop, need to deliver data in varying complexities and want to guarantee that the data can be immediately absorbed into applications in use by their customers."
To read the rest, please visit the ERDAS TITAN blog.
On the other end of the pipe, data authors and publishers want to rapidly distribute data to their consumers (i.e. their customers, clients, users, purchasers, general public, etc.). These folks, from aerial data providers to national mapping agencies to the one-man geo-shop, need to deliver data in varying complexities and want to guarantee that the data can be immediately absorbed into applications in use by their customers."
To read the rest, please visit the ERDAS TITAN blog.
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