[gdal-dev] [OSGeo-Standards] CSV spatial data on the web

[Stefan Keller]

Hi Jeremy

Thanks for the info.
I assume you are aware of GeoCSV and related software like the
well-known OGR (and the #TheShapefileChallenge ):
http://giswiki.hsr.ch/GeoCSV

:Stefan


2016-02-16 19:40 GMT+01:00 Jeremy Palmer <JPalmer at linz.govt.nz>:
> For forks that are interested W3C has setup a CSV on the Web Working Group https://www.w3.org/2013/csvw/wiki/Main_Page to provide recommendations for better interoperability when working with CSV datasets.
>
> I raised an issue a few months ago on the working documents, with my main issue being that spatial datatypes are not really accounted for:
>
> https://github.com/w3c/csvw/issues/795
>
> I believe this is an important thing to solve as publishing large open datasets is something that is not well addressed and keeps getting reinvented by multiple groups or vendors.
>
> They have now responded to my issue with this response:
>
> https://github.com/w3c/csvw/pull/822
>
> But I think this response needs a wider community view.
>
> Cheers,
> Jeremy
>
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