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Date: October 18, 1998 08:38 PM
Author: Dawn Wright (dawn@dusk.geo.orst.edu)
Subject: New Topics for Week 2 - READ THIS FIRST

Hello everyone,

Bravo for some terrific dialogue during our first week of discussion for
distributed computing. We covered quite a bit of ground, starting off with
basic definitions (e.g., "distributed computing" - "internet GIS" -
"interoperable GIS" - "OpenGIS") and branched off from there to discuss
hardware and software issues, metadata, and societal impacts, particularly
in developing countries. Most fascinating!

Now I think that it would be interesting to spend this week actually looking
at some web sites that showcase the geographic information technologies that
we have been talking about.

I have chosen several web sites and created a new thread for each category
so that we won't get too confused (I hope). These web sites come from
companion web site to the definitive book (thus far) on distributed
computing, "GIS Online", written by Brandon Plewe of Brigham Young, one of
the co-authors of the Distributed Computing white paper.

Choose a web site thread and start or jump into an open discussion of what
you think about the site. Is it effective? Why or why not? How do you think
the site could be improved in terms of the underlying computing
architecture? Also, should user interfaces for these distributed computing
sites be any different than for a standalone (non-distributed) GIS session?
These are just some questions to get the ball rolling.

Ok, here are the different web site threads to choose from:

   * Research/Development/Standards in Distributed Computing
     The Open Geospatial Datastore Interface
     http://www.ogdi.org/ogdiri

   * GRASSLinks Australia
     A WWW interface to the AGCRC-4DGM Database which includes maps covering
     the geography, geology, and geophysics of Australia
     http://www.agcrc.csiro.au/4dgm/grasslinks

   * Interactive Taiwan
     http://peacock.tnjc.edu.tw/ADD/maps/taiwanmap.html

   * The Planet Mars
     NASA Planetray Data System's Mars Explorer
     http://www-pdsimage.wr.usgs.gov/PDS/public/mapmaker/mapmkr.htm

   * Web-based GIS
     MANY links that provide "full" GIS capabilities online (take your pick)
     http://www.geog.byu.edu/gisonline/links/webgis.htm

     (http://forums.library.orst.edu/forums/Index.cfm?CFApp=7&Message_ID=2083)