4th July 2007, 03:02 PM
Best interface: I agree with Trowelhead.
Make it in the form of .shp files and then let us GIS nerds do with that as we will. As the HER is (or ought to be) a constantly changing beast, allowing downloads of .shp files will only allow a snapshot to be created of aspects of the HER on a particular date, so I see no problem there. Although I guess there will inevitably be copyright problems with maps. I personally would also like to see a mixture of raster and vector map formats.....but what do I know.
(As ADS is quite happy to host archaeological 'grey literature', perhsps they could also host 'grey' GIS data).
Make it in the form of .shp files and then let us GIS nerds do with that as we will. As the HER is (or ought to be) a constantly changing beast, allowing downloads of .shp files will only allow a snapshot to be created of aspects of the HER on a particular date, so I see no problem there. Although I guess there will inevitably be copyright problems with maps. I personally would also like to see a mixture of raster and vector map formats.....but what do I know.
(As ADS is quite happy to host archaeological 'grey literature', perhsps they could also host 'grey' GIS data).