[OSGeo-Standards] Re: [tiling] OGC Tiled WMS Discussion Paper

Paul Ramsey pramsey at refractions.net
Fri Sep 7 12:29:40 EDT 2007


Where would we get a copy to comment? I don't see it here 
http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/dp

P.

Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> I was contacted by Edric Keighan about a discussion paper that was
> recently submitted to OGC (with Cubewerx as the editor) titled:
> 
>    07-057r2 OpenGIS Tiled WMS Discussion Paper
> 
> I believe it is roughly comparible in goals to this work:
> 
>    http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/WMS_Tile_Caching
> 
> I believe Edric is interested in feedback on the paper and support for the
> proposal (for those of us who are OGC members) and perhaps more importantly
> he is interested in implementations of the specification within our projects
> with OpenLayers being the most obvious candidate.
> 
> I believe he has also contacted Cameron Shorter who is an OGC member and
> who is directly involved with OpenLayers.  I'm hoping that Cameron will
> review the paper and perhaps compare and contrast with the WMS Tile Caching
> spec at:
> 
>    http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/WMS_Tile_Caching
> 
> I haven't been to involved in the tiling spec in the past, so I'm going to
> mostly back out of this discussion now, but I wanted to ensure everyone is
> aware of what is going on, and that we open up some discussion.
> 
> Anyone wanting to contact Edric can do so at the email in the cc:.
> 
> Best regards,


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