[OSGeo-Discuss] regarding Standards on the beta website

[Jody Garnett]

You can click on the number, in this case 11, and see a list of the
projects implementing the OGC standard. I am deleting it now...

--
Jody Garnett

On 22 August 2017 at 10:17, Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com> wrote:

> On mardi 22 août 2017 14:07:04 CEST Jeff McKenna wrote:
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> > Many of these don't make any sense to me, if you ask me my opinion. We
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> > should be using the list of OGC standards and entering them into
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> > wordpress, and not allowing editors to edit/add new non-standards. But
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> > that is all my own opinion :) Then we can link to these standards. As
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> > of now anyone can create a 'standard' and post it on the beta site,
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> > seems very odd to me.
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>
>
> 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.
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> Even
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> >
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> > Is my opinion here too strong? For now I chose just to edit the
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> > descriptions for all of these 'standards', valid or not.
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> >
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> > What do you prefer?
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> >
>
> > -jeff
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> >
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> > On 2017-08-22 1:59 PM, Jody Garnett wrote:
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> > > Thanks jeff, I just noticed that work had been done in the GeoServer
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> > > meeting :) We also spotted one standard "OGC" which does not make
> sense.
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> > >
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> > > Do you think it is worthwhile linking to these standards?
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> > >
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> > >
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> > >
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> > > --
>
> > > Jody Garnett
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> > >
>
> > > On 22 August 2017 at 09:42, Jeff McKenna <
> jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com
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> > >
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> > > <mailto:jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>> wrote:
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> > > Since we have so many website 'editors' (currently 84), please if
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> > > you do create a new "standard" (double-quote use is on purpose, as
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> > > many of these are not actual standards) when you are editing your
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> > > project page, please let me know and I will edit the new standard
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> > > and add a description - I have just went through all of these
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> > > "standards" and set descriptions for each of the 27 "standards".
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> > >
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> > > For example:
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> > >   (WPS)
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> > >
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> > >     will now appear on the project pages as:
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> > >
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> > >    Web Processing Service (WPS)
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> > >
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> > > This consistency makes it much easier to read for new users to our
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> > > site.
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> > >
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> > > thanks all!
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> > >
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> > > -jeff
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> >
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