The EPSG Contract

[Paul Ramsey]

I have also tried the Intergraph WFS and it is in easting/northing, so
that makes 3 so far:

   Mapserver
   Cubewerx
   Intergraph

Will be interesting to hear what the wfs list says.

Frank Warmerdam wrote:

> On 5/19/05, Paul Ramsey <pramsey at refractions.net> wrote:
>
>>Is it so bad to suck it up and follow the standards consensus, no matter
>>how silly? Sometimes bad decisions are made, but walking away from the
>>process destroys all the good decisions too.
>
>
> Paul,
>
> I do see your point, and I have certainly accepted that when MapServer
> implements WMS 1.3 it will have to address this issue properly.  However,
> the WFS stuff has existed for quite a while (as has GML) but this issue
> is only being raised now in the WFS/GML context.  So we are left
> having to back-fix without any obvious indicate of what is really the right
> thing to do.
>
> I *suspect* that at least for GML 2 the coordinate system does not
> control order of values in coordinate tuples.  I'm sure I have heard
> previous detailed discussios to this effect.  I am not at all sure of
> the situation with GML3.
>
> Hopefully we can isolate these issues to GML3 and WMS 1.3+ so that
> a simple version check will suffice to make the decision clear.
>
> Best regards,