Fwd: [ERR] from Where 2.0

[Daniela Florescu]

Could the administrator of the mailing list please delete this address ?

thanks !

Dana



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> Date: March 30, 2010 7:15:36 PM PDT
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> From: daniela florescu <http://x-query.com/mailman/listinfo/talk>
> Date: March 30, 2010 7:13:45 PM PDT
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> Subject:  from Where 2.0
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> Dear all,
>
> I really enjoyed being in XML Prague. Talking with like-minded people
> felt SO good !
>
> But to be honest traveling through IT circles those days  feels a  
> little
> bit like being manic depressive. One day I feel really good, the next
> day I feel really bad.
>
> Today I spent the entire day at Where 2.0.
> http://en.oreilly.com/where2010
>
> Geolocation information. Fascinating stuff. Sci-fi applications (that
> work).
>
> But then. Most such information is represented in dialects of XML
> (GML, geoRSS, KML), or something that can be trivially mapped
> to it (Shapefile, GeoJason, some CSV).
>
> I asked during ALL the talks today: "How do you store and process
> your data?".
>
> I got: Files. SQL Lite. Postgres. Cassandra. Oracle (but not the XML  
> part).
>
> I insisted: why not an XML database ? Why not native XML processors ?
>
> I got: " what is that?". "they don't work" "they don't scale", "I  
> thought they died".
>
> Is it only me that get those answers ? Or are XQuery and XSLT having  
> a problem
> with outreach ?
>
> Any success stories in this community with storing and processing   
> geolocation data  ?
>
> Just curious to hear some other opinions.
>
> Best regards
> Dana
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