[postgis-users] Re: Conformance testing

[strk at refractions.net]

On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 02:09:20PM -0700, Paul Ramsey wrote:
> Randy,
> If you check out the ogc_test_suite you can see that we do in fact pass 
> conformance testing. We have not submitted yet, largely because of a 
> lack of time, but also because even when we passed we would have to pay 
> a royalty to be allowed to say that we did.
> Paul

Given the quality of OGC standard specifications paying them
to claim conformancy really sounds as a joke!
Also, it takes money to join the standardization effort...
Is this a sane way of defining standards in your opinion ?

--strk;

> 
> 
> Randy George wrote:
> 
> >Hi,
> >
> > 
> >
> >            I’ve noticed this on the PostGIS intro page:
> >
> > 
> >
> >“PostGIS follows the OpenGIS <http://www.opengis.org> "Simple Features 
> >Specification for SQL <http://www.opengis.org/docs/99-049.pdf>" and will 
> >be submitted for conformance testing at version 1.0.”
> >
> > 
> >
> >            What is the status on this?
> >
> > 
> >
> >Thanks
> >
> >
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