[OSGeo-Standards] What's GMLCOV and GMLCOV for JPEG2000?

Mateusz Łoskot mateusz at loskot.net
Thu Jul 24 05:54:38 PDT 2014


On 24 July 2014 14:39, Stefan Keller <sfkeller at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks a lot for the quick response.
> So put in other words:
> It's about a geospatial coverage format
> * under the hood of JPEG
> * with a OGC GEOCONV-alike metadata encoding
> * and a JPEG-alike regular raster/regular grid data encoding?

Stefan,

Yes, something like that.
My understanding is that GML GEOCOV need to be extended to allow
other non-textual types of encodings of geospatial coverages (e.g.
images, grids).
The GML part may be confusing though: non-GML encoding for GML GEOCOV? :)

BTW, here is RFC on GEOCOV for GeoTIFF
http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/92

Best regards,
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Mateusz  Łoskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net


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