WFS-basic

Raj Singh raj at rajsingh.org
Wed Nov 1 03:05:31 EST 2006


For those interested in following the development of WFS Basic,  
http://www.ogcnetwork.net/wfsbasic has a ton of updated content this  
week, and a link to join a public mailing list. This has developed  
from conversations with a lot of people over the last few weeks, and  
I hope this group can join in the discussion. Some notes from past  
comments on this list:
- Jo: your--among many others--voice was heard and GML/XML Schema  
won't be the mandatory data description language for WFS Basic.
- Tom (Kralidis): Yes, I've recently learned that 'Basic WFS' is a  
term used in the WFS spec meaning a read-only WFS. My WFS Basic name  
will probably change soon.
- Pat: I'm working on an Atom/GeoRSS example.

---
Raj


On Nov 1, 2006, at 2:50 AM, Stefan F. Keller wrote:

> Hello Jo,
>
> I apologie myself having sort of interrupted the last thread about  
> 'WFS-basic and geometadata exchange' which began so interesting.  
> WFS basic and GeoRSS output is still a hot topic to me.
>
> I tried again to sort out what protocols and/or information models  
> we are really talking about in the context of geometadata and data  
> repositories! See http://www.gis.hsr.ch/wiki/OSGeodata_Discovery  >  
> Protocols and information models for some thoughts about this.
>
> You will see that I came up with four protocols - including WFS  
> basic - and two minimal models which contain DClite4G and Peter's  
> extensive but still sort of minimal model.
>
> Hope this could be an input for the meeting today (which I have to  
> abstain).
> -- Stefan
>
> 2006/10/31, Jo Walsh <jo at frot.org>: dear all,
>
> Let's meet and greet, this week on Thursday in the regular place -
> #osgeo on irc.freenode.net - at the regular time - 1600 GMT/1100EST.
>
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Geodata_Committee_Ninth_Meeting
> contains the agenda that came out of my head last week. As I am here I
> would like to talk about some of the projects and plans that are in
> the geodata committee's worldview. I would also like to apologise
> again for my circumstantial absense over the last couple of months and
> I want to start putting more code time energy into this again.
>
> It is part of the core 'mission' of the geodata committee that we
> build a public geodata repository, there has been a lot of effort put
> into components of this. There has been a lot of back and forth
> uncertainty about "no data before metadata" / "no metadata before  
> data"
> which leaves us with a lot of resources half-set-up, some data to keep
> track of and a bit of figuring out what is where.
>
> I hope we can take this opportunity to work out a kind of blueprint,
> best practise for establishing a data archive with open source, open
> standards and a constant eye towards re-use by communities of client
> applications.
>
> I hope I'll have the chance to write more / dig out more thoughts
> before Thursday, otherwise it would be good to talk over the future
> of the geodata repository project with whoever can make it,
>
> cheers,
>
>
> jo
>
>





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