[postgis-devel] OGC WKB/T - PGIS EWKB/T

[Markus Schaber]

Hi, Martin,

On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 11:48:09 -0000
"Martin Daly" <Martin.Daly at cadcorp.com> wrote:

> > Is remember having stumbled over this document earlier, but I 
> > always regarded it as proposal. Is it really approved, and 
> > thus an official spec?
> 
> This is part of an e-mail from Kurt Buehler, sent to the OGC Simple
> Features for COM Working Group on 6th September, 1999:
>
> > Finally, Adam's Z-value revision 99-402r2 passed.
> > It can still be obtained at:
> >   https://feature.opengis.org/members/archive/99-402r2.doc
> >   https://feature.opengis.org/members/archive/99-402r2.pdf
> >   https://feature.opengis.org/members/archive/99-402r2.ps
> >   https://feature.opengis.org/members/archive/99-402r2.rtf

Great!
 
> Those URLs are now 404's, the member area having been replaced by the
> portal.  I will chase OGC up about making the document more public.

Thanks.

> The only WKBZ-aware implementations that I know of are ours, Safe
> Software's FME, and Frank Warmerdam's OGR.

And they all adhere to the above standard? Cool. A standard that
actually works, has not too much incompatible rivaling standards, and is
adopted. I always thought such things do not exist :-)

> > However, we still have to convince the OGC to adopt our 
> > interpretation of M values.
> 
> I suggest that you and/or Refractions draft a change request proposal
> based on 99-402, to extend WKB and WKT to include M and ZM.  Cadcorp, as
> an OGC Technical Committee member, would be willing to act as the
> submitter.

I think I'll get the permission to do this at work, but I cannot promise
anything before the end of January.

Thanks for your willingness to submit it,
Markus

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