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Base maps aren't authoritative. They are a means for sharing consensus so we can achieve more in community than we can alone, but a base map can be verified against the terrain before a symbology is applied. The symbols are the ontology. If a map is incompatible with another map, that can be noted. It can't always be resolved unless that commonly mapped is consulted. If there is no commonality, there is no conflict. len From: Steve Newcomb [mailto:srn@c...] John Sowa's "Lattice of Theories" notion is interesting. It recognizes that it's useful to express intersections between different universes of discourse governed by incompatible ontologies. The Topic Maps Reference Model is interesting, too. It establishes a standard rhetoric for expressing such wormholes. In both cases, there's no requirement for a "base map". I think these kinds of ideas show the way forward, because they sidestep any requirement that everybody agrees about anything before information from different perspectives can be integrated, or before information expressed in terms of a given perspective can become useful to people who don't share it.
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