[MetaCRS] 'FOSS Maintained' Source of CRS Definitions

[Mike Adair]

I think a big issue is to get a commitment from some organization to run 
a service like this operationally.  I know from my years in the 
government that they won't commit to do that (at least the Canadian 
gov), OGC won't do it (last time I asked) because they don't have a 
mandate to run things like that.  Galdos stood one up but it's an ebRIM 
catalogue with it's associated complexity.  I really like the RESTful 
approach of spatialreference.org and the ability to extend the database.

If we are going to be building operational apps that come to depend on a 
service like this, there has to be a robust, operational, 
highly-available implementation.  I don't think OSGeo has the mandate to 
run it either, but for such a fundamental 'geo' service, we might be 
able to convince the board to make an exception in this case? 

Mike


Arnulf Christl wrote:
> On Wed, May 7, 2008 18:10, Howard Butler wrote:
>   
>> I can't speak for Chris, but I would like to see
>> http://spatialreference.org
>> play a part of the MetaCRS effort.  I currently host this on my own server,
>> but if availability were to become an issue, or I wouldn't have any more
>> time to keep it alive, or MetaCRS would like to use it as a centerpiece, I
>> would transfer it to OSGeo (I have stated this before in a couple of
>> forums, I believe).  We could then find resources to keep its heart
>> beating.
>>
>> I think something like http://spatialreference.org can play a key role
>> in MetaCRS's problem of common dictionary creation and maintenance. In my
>> mind, common dictionaries is the juiciest problem MetaCRS can tackle, and
>> sr.org is one of a multi-pronged approach at tackling it.
>>
>>     
> ...and as a note for the records: Hobu, Chris - thank you both for having
> started http://spatialreference.org. It plays a valuable role in resolving
> some of the issues around axis order confusion and helped mellow
> OGP/EPSG's opposition to computing with lon/lat coordinate pairs. I am
> sure that it will grow to be an excellent resource. If it helps to promote
> it with the  OSGeo compass I am all in favor to support it.
>
> Bets regards,
>
>