RFC 13 : SOS support

[Pericles S. Nacionales]

Well, since no one else seems to want to comment on this, I'd say +1.

-Perry

On Friday 24 February 2006 09:40, Yewondwossen Assefa wrote:
> Pericles S. Nacionales wrote:
> > On Thursday 23 February 2006 20:33, Yewondwossen Assefa wrote:
> >>Is it possible to get comments and votes on this ?
> >>
> >>Thanks
> >>
> >>Yewondwossen Assefa wrote:
> >>>Hi all,
> >>>
> >>>  As mentionned a few weeks ago on the list, we were working on trying
> >>>to  have an SOS support in Mpaserver using the same concepts applied for
> >>>wms/wfs/wcs.  There is an RFC explaining more on what the intentions
> >>>are.  Could you please have a look and give feed backs if possiible.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>   http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/development/rfc/ms-rfc-13
> >
> > I like the detailed RFC.  Well done.  I've taken Stephen's arguments into
> > consideration but believe that this is ultimately a good thing mostly
> > because I believe MapServer should support OGC specs/standards.  The
> > concerns about metadata stuff is very valid and I hope we could find a
> > better way to consolidate the common tags.  Or rethink how metadata is
> > supported in MapServer--perhaps get rid of the prefixes in the metadata
> > and add a map/layer or even metadata level keyword like OWSSERVICE that
> > accepts values like WMS, WFS, WCS, SOS, etc...  but that's another topic.
> >
> > I'm ready to vote but would like to see other people's opinion on this.
> >
> > -Perry
>
> Perry,
>
>   I understand that the use of the metadata concept was exapanded beyond
> the initial idea. We kind of used it (maybe abused it) for all ogc
> implemnations. I am not sure and I have not really though of what would
> be the best solution if we have to redo things again.
>   There is work done to be able to accomodate common tags between all
> the ogc specs. For eample you could have a ows_address metadata thet
> woule be pickec up by all services. You could also have wms_address
> which has prioprity on the ows_xxxx tags, giving you the abilily to also
> define things per service.  This definitly help those serving ogc
> services not duplicate their data.
>
>   Later,

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Pericles S. Nacionales
Conservation Biology Program
University of Minnesota
e-mail: naci0002 at umn.edu