[OSGeo-Discuss] regarding Standards on the beta website

Even Rouault even.rouault at spatialys.com
Tue Aug 22 10:17:49 PDT 2017


On mardi 22 août 2017 14:07:04 CEST Jeff McKenna wrote:
> Many of these don't make any sense to me, if you ask me my opinion.  We
> should be using the list of OGC standards and entering them into
> wordpress, and not allowing editors to edit/add new non-standards.  But
> that is all my own opinion :)  Then we can link to these standards.  As
> of now anyone can create a 'standard' and post it on the beta site,
> seems very odd to me.

Just a remainder that OGC is not the only source of standards. For example, GeoJSON is IETF 
RFC 7946 for example (and before last year, was a community standard). GeoTIFF can also be 
considered as a defacto standard, etc.. You have also the ISO standards for metadata, etc...
Probably a loose definition for standards could be a specification available somewhere 
(potentially behind a paywall like ISO...), and implemented by at least several software/
vendors.

Even

> 
> Is my opinion here too strong?  For now I chose just to edit the
> descriptions for all of these 'standards', valid or not.
> 
> What do you prefer?
> 
> -jeff
> 
> On 2017-08-22 1:59 PM, Jody Garnett wrote:
> > Thanks jeff, I just noticed that work had been done in the GeoServer
> > meeting :) We also spotted one standard "OGC" which does not make sense.
> > 
> > Do you think it is worthwhile linking to these standards?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > --
> > Jody Garnett
> > 
> > On 22 August 2017 at 09:42, Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com
> > 
> > <mailto:jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>> wrote:
> >     Since we have so many website 'editors' (currently 84), please if
> >     you do create a new "standard" (double-quote use is on purpose, as
> >     many of these are not actual standards) when you are editing your
> >     project page, please let me know and I will edit the new standard
> >     and add a description - I have just went through all of these
> >     "standards" and set descriptions for each of the 27 "standards".
> >     
> >     For example:
> >        (WPS)
> >      
> >          will now appear on the project pages as:
> >      
> >         Web Processing Service (WPS)
> >     
> >     This consistency makes it much easier to read for new users to our
> >     site.
> >     
> >     thanks all!
> >     
> >     -jeff
> 
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