[OSGeodata] Re: WFS-basic

[Allan Doyle]

On Nov 1, 2006, at 03:05, Raj Singh wrote:

> 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.

Yay! Now maybe we should also start thinking about avoiding over- 
reliance on "?" and "&" and take a page from Paul's book on the  
Tiling spec.
(http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Tile_Map_Service_Specification)

This would nip any tendency to use the up and coming OWS Common spec  
in the bud.

> - 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.

WSS - Web Shape Service - Really get someone's attention!
WKS - Web KML Service - ditto


> - 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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