[postgis-users] Re: Conformance testing

[Paul Ramsey]

Could be worse, could be like ISO, where you have to pay just to see  
the document in the first place :)

P

On 11-May-05, at 1:23 AM, strk at refractions.net wrote:

> 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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