[Dutch] Fwd: Would you be concerned if the "GeoServices REST API" became an OGC standard?

Wo mei 8 02:57:42 PDT 2013

Goede discussie inderdaad.

Voor de Nederlandstaligen heb ik er op www.gisnederland.nl een blog aan
gewijd

Met een schuin oog op de agenda zie ik van 13-16 mei (dus volgende week) het
GeoSpatial World Forum 2013, waar wij (hulde aan Paul v Genuchten!) als
osgeo.nl de track open source verzorgen.

Is het nog zinvol (ja!) en haalbaar (Paul?) om daar aandacht te besteden aan
deze discussie. Niet gehinderd door het feit dat “open source” en “open
standaarden” twee verschillende dingen zijn

(ik zie verder in het programma ook een track over “standards &
interoperability”, maar ik betijfel of dáár deze discussie op tafel komt).

Ik zou van iedere spreker wel willen horen hoeveel (OGC-) standaarden ze
willen ondersteunen: de WxS familie / KML / Esri Geoservices REST / Who’s
next?

Groet, 

Gert-Jan

Van: dutch-bounces op lists.osgeo.org [mailto:dutch-bounces op lists.osgeo.org]
Namens Jeroen Ticheler
Verzonden: dinsdag 7 mei 2013 9:42
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Onderwerp: [Dutch] Fwd: Would you be concerned if the "GeoServices REST API"
became an OGC standard?

Beste mensen,

Op OSGeo Discuss is een intensieve discussie gaande over een mogelijk nieuwe
OGC specificatie genaamd GeoServices REST API. 

Lees hieronder, lees de hele conversatie op
http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-May/thread.html 

De discussie is belangrijk omdat de geloofwaardigheid van OGC als
standaarden organisatie op het spel staat. Dus schroom niet en laat je
horen.

Groet,

Jeroen

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Begin forwarded message:

From: Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter op gmail.com>

Subject: [Board] Would you be concerned if the "GeoServices REST API" became
an OGC standard?

Date: 4 mei 2013 12:46:33 CEST

To: OSGeo Discussions <discuss op lists.osgeo.org>

Cc: standards op lists.osgeo.org, OSGeo-Board <board op lists.osgeo.org>

OSGeo Community,

Currently, voting OGC members are to decide whether to accept the
"GeoServices REST API" as an OGC standard. This is already a contentious
issue, with 13 votes for, and 10 votes against, 72 outstanding votes, with
voting halted temporally, being reopened again in a few days, and closing 2
weeks after that. [1]

I'm wanting to hear whether people in the OSGeo community have strong
opinions regarding this proposed standard, and whether we as a collective
OSGeo community should make statements to the OGC, and voting OGC members,
stressing our thoughts.

If there is sufficient interest, I'll raise this issue with the OSGeo Board,
with the intent of drafting a statement on behalf of OSGeo.

As background:
* "The API was initially developed by Esri and implemented on the ArcGIS for
Server platform." [2]

* The proposed GeoServices REST API specification overlaps with most OGC
standards already deployed, including: WMS, WMTS, WCS, WFS, SE/SLD, CS/W.
This effectively means that for most use cases covered by the GeoServices
REST API, applications would now have two standards to support. Also,
spatial infrastructure programs will be impacted, as OGC compliance won't
necessarily equate to interoperability.

* Most (all?) current OGC web service standards to date have an Open Source
reference implementation, which was often (always?) part funded by OGC
testbeds, and open source implementations were tested against proprietary
implementations during OGC testbeds. As far as I'm aware, there has been
very little up-take from the Open Source community of the "GeoServices REST
API", and I'm unaware of any testing of non-ESRI applications during OGC
testbeds. (Someone may be able to correct me here).

[1] https://portal.opengeospatial.org/?m=projects
<https://portal.opengeospatial.org/?m=projects&a=view&project_id=82&tab=5&su
btab=0> &a=view&project_id=82&tab=5&subtab=0
(OGC member login required. Votes counted as at 4 May 2013)

[2] http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/89

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Cameron Shorter
Geospatial Solutions Manager
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