[Live-demo] Cross reference between OGC standards & OS projects. Is your project correctly listed?

Frank Gasdorf fgdrf at users.sourceforge.net
Tue Aug 2 03:02:59 EDT 2011


2011/8/2 Alex Mandel <tech_dev at wildintellect.com>

> Peter,
>
> It's a compromise to satisfy the needs of osgeo-live being able to run
> without internet access.


Big point! In organisations with firewalls and proxies it can be hard to get
the xubuntu configured well, even for first time xubuntu/unix users.


> Also I believe the standards overview pages are
> actually written by OGC as a human readable summary which of course can
> include the read more online links. I don't know how many OGC specs
> you've tried to read but if I didn't have wikipedia summaries I'm not
> sure I'd understand what many of them are. Keep in mind the disc is many
> people's 1st exposure to the Geospatial world not just FOSS.
>

I'm right <http://www.dict.cc/englisch-deutsch/right.html>
there<http://www.dict.cc/englisch-deutsch/there.html>
 with <http://www.dict.cc/englisch-deutsch/with.html> you. The description
in the standard overview documents gives the user, who get first time in
touch with FOSS(4G) and GIS Standards itself, a short summary and additional
references to the original documents at opengeospatial.org


> Thanks,
> Alex
>
> On 08/01/2011 03:43 PM, Peter Baumann wrote:
> > Frank, Cameron-
> >
> > while I appreciate the idea of homogenization, to me it seems more
> > natural to keep references to the standards: if I read a linked "OGC
> > WCS" I'd expect a link to OGC WCS. The OSGeo description page is a
> > paraphrasing of the standards texts, but not authoritative.
> >
> > my 2 cents,
> > Peter
> >
> >
> >
> > On 08/02/2011 12:38 AM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
> >> Frank,
> >> I suspect these proposals are a good idea, but as yet I'm unclear
> >> about what we gain by changing the way to use hyperlinks.
> >>
> >> I'd really like to revisit your suggestions as we move into the next
> >> release, but as we are getting close to this release, and as
> >> translators are working like mad translating the English docs, we
> >> should be doing our best to keep the English docs as static as
> >> possible, and only change the English docs if we find something wrong.
> >>
> >>
> >> On 01/08/11 22:25, Frank Gasdorf wrote:
> >>> @Cameron, this step will help us to harmonize
> >>> <http://www.dict.cc/englisch-deutsch/harmonize.html> the cross
> >>> references to the standard overview documents.
> >>>
> >>> Today (revision 6683 : https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/changeset/6683) I
> >>> updated geoserver_overview and there you can see the :doc: directives
> >>> (in Implemented Standards section) which uses the headline from the
> >>> overview page itself.
> >>>
> >>> :doc:`<../standards/wms_overview>`    and
> >>> :doc:`Web Map Service (WMS) <../standards/wms_overview>`
> >>>
> >>> will result into <a href="">Web Map Standard (WMS)</a>
> >>>
> >>> In my opinion we should update it to :doc: instead of relative links
> >>> with html string in it like to one of the two mentioned above:
> >>> `Web Map Service (WMS) <../standards/wms_overview.html>`_
> >>>
> >>> We should also grep in all rst file (except the on in standards sub
> >>> folder) for links to the opengeospatial standards links like :
> >>> http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/wms
> >>> http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/wfs and so on
> >>> and replace these with a OSGeo standard overview page link (:doc:`Web
> >>> Map Service (WMS) <../standards/wms_overview>`). All abbreviation
> >>> without a link could be update too.
> >>>
> >>> If you need any help to update the rst docs let me know....
> >>>
> >>> A second enhancement from my point of view: Add a link from each
> >>> standard page to the standards (overview) page to get an overview and
> >>> a context for the user. Would you agree?
> >>>
> >>> Cheers, Frank
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> 2011/8/1 Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com
> >>> <mailto:cameron.shorter at gmail.com>>
> >>>
> >>>     Byron Cochrane has been building a valuable cross reference,
> listing
> >>>     servers and clients to the common OGC standards. I've copied it
> >>> into the
> >>>     spreadsheet at [1], and intend to copy into a table in the
> >>> OSGeo-Live
> >>>     docs, inside our section on standards.
> >>>
> >>>     Could all projects please have a look, and correct any mistakes
> >>> in the
> >>>     spreadsheet.
> >>>
> >>>     [1]
> >>>
> >>>
> https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Al9zh8DjmU_RdGIzd0VLLTBpQVJuNVlHMlBWSDhKLXc&hl=en_GB#gid=10
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> <
> https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Al9zh8DjmU_RdGIzd0VLLTBpQVJuNVlHMlBWSDhKLXc&hl=en_GB#gid=10
> >
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>     I'll copy the contents from the online spreadsheet into
> >>> subversion in a
> >>>     couple of days, on 3 August 2011.
> >>>
> >>>     Below is a copy from the spreadsheet into email ...
> >>>
> >>>     Web Services:
> >>>     ============
> >>>
> >>>     52nSOS                            SOS
> >>>     52nWPS                        WPS
> >>>     52nWSS
> >>>     atlasstyler
> >>>     deegree    WMS    WFS    WCS        CSW    WPS    SOS
> >>>     gdal
> >>>     geokettle
> >>>     geomajas
> >>>     geomoose
> >>>     geonetwork    WMS    WFS    WCS        CSW
> >>>     geopublisher
> >>>     geoserver    WMS    WFS    WCS
> >>>     gmt
> >>>     gpsdrive
> >>>     grass
> >>>     gvsig
> >>>     kosmo
> >>>     libLAS
> >>>     mapbender
> >>>     mapfish
> >>>     mapguide    WMS    WFS
> >>>     mapnik
> >>>     mapproxy    WMS            WMTS
> >>>     mapserver    WMS    WFS    WCS
> >>>     maptiler
> >>>     marble
> >>>     mb-system
> >>>     openjump
> >>>     openlayers
> >>>     opencpn
> >>>     optics
> >>>     osm
> >>>     osgearth
> >>>     ossim
> >>>     otb
> >>>     pgrouting
> >>>     postgis
> >>>     prune
> >>>     qgis
> >>>     qgis_mapserver    WMS
> >>>     R
> >>>     rasdaman            WCS            WPS
> >>>     saga
> >>>     sahana
> >>>     spatialite
> >>>     tinyows        WFS
> >>>     udig
> >>>     ushahidi
> >>>     viking
> >>>     zygrib
> >>>     zoo-project                        WPS
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>     ======================================
> >>>
> >>>     Web Clients:
> >>>     ==========
> >>>     52nSOS
> >>>     52nWPS
> >>>     52nWSS
> >>>     atlasstyler
> >>>     deegree    WMS    WFS    WCS
> >>>     gdal
> >>>     geokettle        WFS            CSW        SOS
> >>>     geomajas    WMS    WFS    WCS        CSW
> >>>     geomoose    WMS
> >>>     geonetwork    WMS    WFS    WCS        CSW
> >>>     geopublisher
> >>>     geoserver
> >>>     gmt
> >>>     gpsdrive
> >>>     grass
> >>>     gvsig    WMS    WFS    WCS        CSW
> >>>     kosmo    WMS    WFS
> >>>     libLAS
> >>>     mapbender    WMS    WFS
> >>>     mapfish    WMS    WFS
> >>>     mapguide    WMS    WFS
> >>>     mapnik
> >>>     mapproxy
> >>>     mapserver    WMS    WFS
> >>>     maptiler
> >>>     marble
> >>>     mb-system
> >>>     openjump    WMS    WFS
> >>>     openlayers    WMS    WFS        WMTS
> >>>     opencpn
> >>>     optics
> >>>     osm
> >>>     osgearth
> >>>     ossim
> >>>     otb
> >>>     pgrouting
> >>>     postgis
> >>>     prune
> >>>     qgis    WMS    WFS
> >>>     qgis_mapserver
> >>>     R
> >>>     rasdaman
> >>>     saga
> >>>     sahana
> >>>     spatialite
> >>>     tinyows
> >>>     udig    WMS    WFS
> >>>     ushahidi
> >>>     viking
> >>>     zygrib
> >>>     zoo-project
> >>>
> >>>     --     Cameron Shorter
> >>>     Geospatial Solutions Manager
> >>>     Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050
> >>>     Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254
> >>>
> >>>     Think Globally, Fix Locally
> >>>     Geospatial Solutions enhanced with Open Standards and Open Source
> >>>     http://www.lisasoft.com
> >>>
>
>
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