Re: dis-java-vrml Re: GeoVRML mailing list: Welcome Aboard

[mccann@nauplius.mbari.org (Mike McCann)]

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>At 4:02 PM -0800 2/2/98, Lee Iverson wrote:
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>>What I don't understand is how the SEDRIS Data Models relate to VRML.
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>Based on your e-mail it seemed to me many of the things that you listed are
>things that you could leverage from the work done already in SEDRIS (the
>data model, the support for 12 different coordinate systems, the API, the
>associated applications, utilities, and other software, and the concepts)
>and take advantage of it without having to go through the many issues/pain
>we have had to go through, struggle with, and solve.

> ... parts removed ...

>that works in a client-server mode for viewing databases on-line.  The
>server is capable of reading SEDRIS databases.
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>I hope this helps.  We're very interested in developments of VRML, and if
>we can  provide any help, we'd be delighted to do that.
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>Farid
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I'm enjoying the discussion.  At a practical level does anybody 
know what work is being done to incorporate VRML with standard 
GIS tools such as ARC/View - ARC/Info?

We have quite a bit of information already stored in an ARC/Info
database.  I would think that an easy path from here to another
3-D visualization system would be useful.

-Mike

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