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

[strk at refractions.net]

Thank you Martin, this is great news!
I'll be happy to (co)edit such a draft.
Are FME people and Frank willing to partecipate as well ?

--strk;

On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 11:48:09AM -0000, Martin Daly wrote:
> Markus,
> 
> > 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
> 
> Those URLs are now 404's, the member area having been replaced by the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.
> 
> The only WKBZ-aware implementations that I know of are ours, Safe
> Software's FME, and Frank Warmerdam's OGR.
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Regards,
> Martin
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