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<DIV>Adding to Simon’s guidance, the Geospatial Services REST API is currently
out for public comment. If anyone from the open source community has issues or
concerns or suggestions, please feel free to submit a comment. Comments should
be submitted using the <A
href="mailto:requests@lists.opengeospatial.org">requests@lists.opengeospatial.org</A>
email list. Any comments are collected and forwarded to the REST API Standards
Working Group. After the 30 day public comment period, the SWG MUST collate and
process all comments received during the 30 day comment period. The SWG then
much discuss and vote on each comment as to the comments disposition: Accept,
Accept with modification, Future Work, or Reject. In any case, the SWG shall let
the comment submitter know the disposition of the comment. Once the comments are
processed, the candidate standard typically requires editing to include
suggested changes.</DIV>
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<DIV>As an additional FYI, prior to release for public comment the OGC
Architecture Board reviewed and provided guidance to the REST API SWG. During
that meeting, the question of JSON/GeoJSON was brought up. From the meeting
notes:</DIV>
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<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT
face=Calibri><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Most of the OAB questions were
related to the use of JSON and JSON schema. There was a question/comment related
to GeoJSON and the REST API. While there is currently no relationship, there is
no reason that GeoJSON could not be used in the future or that the approach used
in the REST API could enhance GeoJSON.</FONT></FONT></P>
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<DIV><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">Therefore, I would encourage the OSGeo
community to submit comments.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">Thanks and regards</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">Carl Reed</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">CTO</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">OGC</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=andrea.aime@geo-solutions.it
href="mailto:andrea.aime@geo-solutions.it">Andrea Aime</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, July 26, 2012 1:02 AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=volker.mische@gmail.com
href="mailto:volker.mische@gmail.com">Volker Mische</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Cc:</B> <A title=standards@lists.osgeo.org
href="mailto:standards@lists.osgeo.org">standards@lists.osgeo.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [OSGeo-Standards] JSON in OGC
standards</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Volker Mische <SPAN
dir=ltr><<A href="mailto:volker.mische@gmail.com"
target=_blank>volker.mische@gmail.com</A>></SPAN> wrote:<BR>
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class=gmail_quote>Hi all,<BR><BR>I've just discovered that the upcoming
GeoServices REST API [1] standard<BR>doesn't make use of GeoJSON, but has it's
own JSON format for geometries.<BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<DIV>Ouch, this is bad, I agree GeoJSON should be preferred due to its large
diffusion</DIV>
<DIV>Afaik all the current open source javascript clients can handle geojson,
while</DIV>
<DIV>I guess adding another json geometry variant might not be too complex,
it's</DIV>
<DIV>really a pity not to take into consideration an already well spread, cross
vendor</DIV>
<DIV>format. </DIV>
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<DIV>Cheers</DIV>
<DIV>Andrea</DIV></DIV>
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