We evaluated OpenLS, and discarded it because there isnt any standard or implementation to support it, at least in remote distributed environments.<br><br>If I publish a geocoder API, I have to think in tools for possible "API consumers" to use it. We decided to use SOAP for pragmatism (almost all development environments allow to create SOAP proxy clients from WSDL documents). Knowing that, our SOAP api tries to follow OpenLS in semantic.<br>
<br>Best regards.<br><br>-- <br>Alvaro Zabala Ordóñez <br><a href="mailto:azabala@gmail.com" target="_blank">azabala@gmail.com</a><br>alvaro.zabala[en]juntadeandalucia[punto]es<br>Tlf: 954 995 572<br>Gabinete de Normalización y Calidad<br>
Servicio de Coordinación y Desarrollo de Sistemas Horizontales.<br>D.G. de Innovación y Administraciones Públicas.<br>Consejería de Innovación, Ciencia y Empresa, Junta de Andalucía<br><br><br>