<div dir="ltr">I'm starting to wonder if anything becoming a <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;white-space:pre-wrap">OGC is a good thing.</span><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br>
</span></div><div style><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;white-space:pre-wrap">What impact would this have on QGIS?</span></div><div style><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br>
</span></div><div style><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;white-space:pre-wrap">- Nathan</span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 9:06 PM, Paolo Cavallini <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cavallini@faunalia.it" target="_blank">cavallini@faunalia.it</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div>FYI. For what I can understand, this could be a damage to QGIS.<br>
Opinions?<br><br><div style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in">
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<b>Da:</b> Cameron Shorter <<a href="mailto:cameron.shorter@gmail.com" target="_blank">cameron.shorter@gmail.com</a>><br>
<b>Inviato il:</b> Sat May 04 12:46:33 CEST 2013<br>
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<b>Oggetto:</b> [Board] Would you be concerned if the "GeoServices REST API" became an OGC standard?<br>
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<pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;word-wrap:break-word;font-family:sans-serif;margin-top:0px">OSGeo Community,<br><br>Currently, voting OGC members are to decide whether to accept the <br>"GeoServices REST API" as an OGC standard. This is already a contentious <br>
issue, with 13 votes for, and 10 votes against, 72 outstanding votes, <br>with voting halted temporally, being reopened again in a few days, and <br>closing 2 weeks after that. [1]<br><br>I'm wanting to hear whether people in the OSGeo community have strong <br>
opinions regarding this proposed standard, and whether we as a <br>collective OSGeo community should make statements to the OGC, and voting <br>OGC members, stressing our thoughts.<br><br>If there is sufficient interest, I'll raise this issue with the OSGeo <br>
Board, with the intent of drafting a statement on behalf of OSGeo.<br><br>As background:<br>* "The API was initially developed by Esri and implemented on the ArcG
IS <br>for Server platform." [2]<br><br>* The proposed GeoServices REST API specification overlaps with most OGC <br>standards already deployed, including: WMS, WMTS, WCS, WFS, SE/SLD, <br>CS/W. This effectively means that for most use cases covered by the <br>
GeoServices REST API, applications would now have two standards to <br>support. Also, spatial infrastructure programs will be impacted, as OGC <br>compliance won't necessarily equate to interoperability.<br><br>* Most (all?) current OGC web service standards to date have an Open <br>
Source reference implementation, which was often (always?) part funded <br>by OGC testbeds, and open source implementations were tested against <br>proprietary implementations during OGC testbeds. As far as I'm aware, <br>
there has been very little up-take from the Open Source community of the <br>"GeoServices REST API", and I'm unaware of any testing of non-ESRI <br>applications during OGC testbeds. (Someone may be
able to
correct me here).<br><br>[1] <br><a href="https://portal.opengeospatial.org/?m=projects&a=view&project_id=82&tab=5&subtab=0" target="_blank">https://portal.opengeospatial.org/?m=projects&a=view&project_id=82&tab=5&subtab=0</a><br>
(OGC member login required. Votes counted as at 4 May 2013)<br><br>[2] <a href="http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/89" target="_blank">http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/89</a><br><br>-- <br>Cameron Shorter<br>
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