<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi All,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">As Jon pointed out, this work is being discussed in the joint OGC/W3C Spatial Data on the Web Working Group. Also, Jon will be presenting the work formally to the OGC membership at our Opening Plenary next month. I encourage interested parties to attend in person (Orlando, FL USA) or remotely via GoTo Meeting.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Many OGC standards are now being developed in GitHub and nothing precludes this work from evolving in a very public fashion and also moving through the OGC process, if desired!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best Regards,</div><div class="">Scott</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Aug 30, 2016, at 3:46 AM, Jon Blower <<a href="mailto:j.d.blower@reading.ac.uk" class="">j.d.blower@reading.ac.uk</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;" class="">Hi Jachym,<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;" class="">That’s good to know, thanks. We’ve done all our development on GitHub so far and communicated via issues and wikis there. It could be a good idea to move discussions somewhere like OSGeo in future, but for now I’d like to encourage anyone who is interested to join us on GitHub:<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;" class=""><a href="https://github.com/covjson/specification" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">https://github.com/covjson/specification</a><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;" class="">The “public-facing” website of the project (including links to tools etc) is<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://covjson.org/" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">https://covjson.org</a>.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;" class="">So I guess you could consider this email the “call for action” to the OSGeo community! ;-) (We have announced this publicly in other forums, but it’s good to have this opportunity to directly talk to OSGeo – thanks Bruce for drawing me in!)<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;" class="">Best wishes,<br class="">Jon<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-color: rgb(181, 196, 223); border-top-width: 1pt; padding: 3pt 0cm 0cm;" class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">From:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">Jachym Cepicky <<a href="mailto:jachym.cepicky@gmail.com" class="">jachym.cepicky@gmail.com</a>><br class=""><b class="">Date:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Tuesday, 30 August 2016 10:38<br class=""><b class="">To:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Bruce Bannerman <<a href="mailto:bruce.bannerman.osgeo@gmail.com" class="">bruce.bannerman.osgeo@gmail.com</a>>, Jon Blower <<a href="mailto:sgs02jdb@reading.ac.uk" class="">sgs02jdb@reading.ac.uk</a>><br class=""><b class="">Cc:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>OSGeo Discussions <<a href="mailto:discuss@lists.osgeo.org" class="">discuss@lists.osgeo.org</a>>, Massimiliano Cannata <<a href="mailto:massimiliano.cannata@supsi.ch" class="">massimiliano.cannata@supsi.ch</a>><br class=""><b class="">Subject:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] CoverageJSON<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class="">Hi,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class="">afaik, we as OSGeo, do not have formal procedure regarding standards, we offer some infrastructure (wiki, mailing list, maybe gitlab) and you can just "call for action" - you can then collaborate like any other project. It is very simple and gives you big freedom. That does not exclude you from adopt the standard by more formal organisations (W3C or (I would prefer it more) OGC) which makes sense<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class="">@sevenspatial would say: go public, announce early, wait a little for possible feedback, and either go on or merge with existing project which might be already there, we just do not know about. for this, OSGeo is great sandbox<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class="">J<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class="">út 30. 8. 2016 v 11:31 odesílatel Bruce Bannerman <<a href="mailto:bruce.bannerman.osgeo@gmail.com" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">bruce.bannerman.osgeo@gmail.com</a>> napsal:<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><blockquote style="border-style: none none none solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-width: 1pt; padding: 0cm 0cm 0cm 6pt; margin-left: 4.8pt; margin-right: 0cm;" class="" type="cite"><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class="">This is good to see Jon.<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class="">@All how can we make this happen within OSGeo?<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class="">Bruce<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><br class="">On 30 Aug 2016, at 19:09, Jon Blower <<a href="mailto:j.d.blower@reading.ac.uk" target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">j.d.blower@reading.ac.uk</a>> wrote:<o:p class=""></o:p></p></div><blockquote style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt;" class="" type="cite"><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;" class="">Dear all,</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;" class=""> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;" class="">(Second attempt at sending this, I wasn’t subscribed before!)</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;" class=""> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;" class="">I’m the leader of the project under which CoverageJSON is being developed [1]. My colleague Maik Riechert is the main developer of this. Thanks very much to Bruce for advertising to this list! I’ll pick up on a few of the points in this thread:</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;" class=""> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;" class="">1.</span><span style="font-size: 6pt;" class=""> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;" class="">Regarding adoption, it’s early days yet, but I’m aware of a few applications in development (including our own projects of course, but also some external folk). We’re building in library support for a few languages (e.g. Javascript, Python) and some tools (e.g. Leaflet and NASA’s Web World Wind).</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;" class="">2.</span><span style="font-size: 6pt;" class=""> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;" class="">I think CovJSON can work nicely with O&M (the coverage can be the result of the observation). O&M could provide the “hooks” on which other metadata (e.g. provenance) could be hung.</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;" class="">3.</span><span style="font-size: 6pt;" class=""> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;" class="">Regarding compression: yes, this is going to be important. JSON gzips very well on the wire, which helps a lot with transfer speed and our tests indicate that it’s typically not very much worse than a compressed binary format. We’ve worked successfully with rasters of millions of pixels in size.</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;" class="">4.</span><span style="font-size: 6pt;" class=""> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;" class="">We’d be very happy to help people who want to implement support for CovJSON in software (e.g. istSOS). Maybe our libraries will be of some use here.</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;" class=""> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;" class="">Any feedback on the spec or tools (positive or negative) is very welcome and timely, as we are moving towards a stable 1.0 release.</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;" class=""> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;" class="">Best wishes,</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'MS Mincho';" class="">
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;" class="">Jon</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;" class=""> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;" class="">[1]<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.melodiesproject.eu/" target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">http://www.melodiesproject.eu</a></span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;" class=""> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;" class="">-- </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica;" class="">Dr Jon Blower,</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica;" class="">MELODIES project coordinator,</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica;" class="">University of Reading</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica;" class=""><a href="mailto:j.d.blower@reading.ac.uk" target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">j.d.blower@reading.ac.uk</a></span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;" class=""> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-color: rgb(181, 196, 223); border-top-width: 1pt; padding: 3pt 0cm 0cm;" class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">From:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">Massimiliano Cannata <<a href="mailto:massimiliano.cannata@supsi.ch" target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">massimiliano.cannata@supsi.ch</a>><br class=""><b class="">Date:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Thursday, 18 August 2016 09:47<br class=""><b class="">To:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Bruce Bannerman <<a href="mailto:bruce.bannerman.osgeo@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">bruce.bannerman.osgeo@gmail.com</a>><br class=""><b class="">Cc:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Jachym Cepicky <<a href="mailto:jachym.cepicky@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">jachym.cepicky@gmail.com</a>>, OSGeo Discussions <<a href="mailto:discuss@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">discuss@lists.osgeo.org</a>>, Jon Blower <<a href="mailto:sgs02jdb@reading.ac.uk" target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">sgs02jdb@reading.ac.uk</a>><br class=""><b class="">Subject:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] CoverageJSON</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class="">Dear All,<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class="">the coverage in O&M is addressed also at EU level within the SOS but in XML.<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class="">I may be interested in exploring this format and add this capability to istSOS in the next future...<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class="">Maxi<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class="">2016-08-17 22:58 GMT+02:00 Bruce Bannerman <<a href="mailto:bruce.bannerman.osgeo@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">bruce.bannerman.osgeo@gmail.com</a>>:<o:p class=""></o:p></div><blockquote style="border-style: none none none solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-width: 1pt; padding: 0cm 0cm 0cm 6pt; margin: 5pt 0cm 5pt 4.8pt;" class="" type="cite"><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class="">Thanks Jachym.<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><o:p class=""> </o:p></p></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class="">I can also see the potential of this format.<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><o:p class=""> </o:p></p></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class="">I like the potential for tying in the Observations and Measurements Observed Property with associated community agreed definitions to the coverage. This has been a missing piece of the puzzle for some time.<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><o:p class=""> </o:p></p></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class="">I understand that Jon and his team would welcome collaboration to further test and develop the format.<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><o:p class=""> </o:p></p></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class="">I expect that Jon will respond when he gets back off his holiday.<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><o:p class=""> </o:p></p></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><span style="color: rgb(136, 136, 136);" class="">Bruce</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><br class="">On 17 Aug 2016, at 19:03, Jachym Cepicky <<a href="mailto:jachym.cepicky@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">jachym.cepicky@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p class=""></o:p></p></div><blockquote style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt;" class="" type="cite"><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class="">Hi Bruce and Jon,<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class="">I went through the spec, and I like it in general (not that it would be so important) <o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class="">JSON usage is certainly still growing, so is size of the data. Are you guys using the CoverageJSON in some application already? I like the metadata verbosity, and overall readiness for international environment.<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class="">Have you been thinking about data compression too? For raster data, this could be key issue IMHO.<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class="">good luck<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class="">Jachym<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class="">čt 11. 8. 2016 v 0:47 odesílatel Bruce Bannerman <<a href="mailto:bruce.bannerman.osgeo@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">bruce.bannerman.osgeo@gmail.com</a>> napsal:<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><blockquote style="border-style: none none none solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-width: 1pt; padding: 0cm 0cm 0cm 6pt; margin: 5pt 0cm 5pt 4.8pt;" class="" type="cite"><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Hi,<o:p class=""></o:p></p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Are any projects doing any work with the emerging data format, CoverageJSON?<o:p class=""></o:p></p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">See:<br class=""><br class="">-<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://covjson.org/" target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">https://covjson.org/</a><br class=""><br class="">-<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://github.com/covjson/specification/blob/master/spec.md" target="_blank" style="color: purple; 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