[OSGeo-Discuss] regarding Standards on the beta website

[Jeff McKenna]

Yes, am aware, I was doing that as I was editing them.  If my memory is 
correct, I believe that was PostGIS.   Likely their editor should be 
contacted and have them select which "standards" they use.


-jeff



On 2017-08-22 3:09 PM, Jody Garnett wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto:even.rouault at spatialys.com>> wrote:
> 
>     __
> 
>     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?
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>      > >
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>      > >
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>      > >
> 
>      > > --
> 
>      > > Jody Garnett
> 
>      > >
> 
>      > > On 22 August 2017 at 09:42, Jeff McKenna
>     <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com <mailto:jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>
> 
>      > >
> 
>      > > <mailto:jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com
>     <mailto:jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>>> wrote:
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>      > > 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:
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>      > >
> 
>      > >    Web Processing Service (WPS)
> 
>      > >
> 
>      > > This consistency makes it much easier to read for new users to our
> 
>      > > site.
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>      > >
> 
>      > > thanks all!
> 
>      > >
> 
>      > > -jeff
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>      >
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