RFC 13 : SOS support

[Daniel Morissette]

Yewondwossen Assefa wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
>   As mentionned a few weeks ago on the list, we were working on trying 
> to  have an SOS support in Mpaserver using the same concepts applied for 
> wms/wfs/wcs.  There is an RFC explaining more on what the intentions 
> are.  Could you please have a look and give feed backs if possiible.
> 
>  Thanks
> 
> 
>    http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/development/rfc/ms-rfc-13
> 

In the RFC, you wrote:

> In Mapserver an Offering will be represented by a group of layers using 
> a metadata to group those layers. 

Would it have made sense to use the layer's group variable as the group 
id instead of a metadata for the grouping?

I presume the other metadata for the group (name and description) will 
be taken from the first layer in a given group in the mapfile, the same 
way that this currently works for grouped WMS layers. Should this be 
specified?


It's rare that this happens, I usually have good opinions on things, but 
in this case I can't make my mind on whether this should be integrated 
directly in MapServer or kept as a separate project built on top of 
libmap.so. As I said and wrote in previous discussions, there as many 
good reasons for than against direct integration.

So I'll vote +0 because I can't make my mind one way or the other. Note 
that I am +1 on the rest of the implementation plan, so whatever the 
rest of the group decides with respect to direct integration or not will 
be good with me.

Daniel
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