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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/12/20 3:50 PM, Colin Smale wrote:<br>
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monospace">The role I expect of the data consumers is to
articulate how they would like to view the data (including what
attributes they are expecting), and not to dictate how that data
is stored/represented internally. Cartography, geography,
statistics etc are very different skills to data modelling and
database design.</div>
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<p>Indeed, technical implementations take functional requirements
into account but have many other inputs and a different class of
actors. Consumers, tell us what you want - not how to do it ! Same
as any software project...</p>
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