<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Nov 8, 2009, at 9:53 AM, Jody Garnett wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><blockquote type="cite">There are many web services, and new ones waiting. What we need are<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">basic metaphors for them. As far as I know WMS, WFS, etc. does not have<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">such. Then we can add any overlay - server or layer.</blockquote></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>And, as per Jody's suggestion, that's exactly how they work in GeoSilk:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>- WMS = server + map (see: <a href="http://projects.opengeo.org/common/geosilk/trunk/geosilk/server_map.png)">http://projects.opengeo.org/common/geosilk/trunk/geosilk/server_map.png)</a><br>- WFS = server + feature (see: <a href="http://projects.opengeo.org/common/geosilk/trunk/geosilk/server_vector.png)">http://projects.opengeo.org/common/geosilk/trunk/geosilk/server_vector.png)</a><br>- WCS = server + raster (see: <a href="http://projects.opengeo.org/common/geosilk/trunk/geosilk/server_raster.png)">http://projects.opengeo.org/common/geosilk/trunk/geosilk/server_raster.png)</a></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div>- WPS = server + process (see: <a href="http://projects.opengeo.org/common/geosilk/trunk/geosilk/server_gear.png)">http://projects.opengeo.org/common/geosilk/trunk/geosilk/server_gear.png)</a><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Where possible we use the Silk metaphor (for server, database, file, etc) and overlay it with the common GIS metaphor (map, vector, raster, etc). We seem to be in basic agreement for map and raster metaphors, but we're still having trouble nailing down a vector one (which is a pretty tough one given how abstract the concept is). GeoSilk uses Jody's uDig metaphor while Robert's GIS icons use something more akin to GeoSilk's line icon.</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><blockquote type="cite"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#144FAE"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#006312"><snip /></font></font></blockquote></div></blockquote></div><br><div>—Rolando</div></body></html>