[OSGeo-Standards] Simple Text Format For Transfer of Simple Spatial Features (Killing the GML 3 Beast)

[Allan Doyle]

I guess in re-reading Jody's message, he already mentioned the GML  
Simple Features Profile. duh.

On Aug 29, 2007, at 18:00 , Allan Doyle wrote:

> Isn't there a new-ish Simple GML profile? I'm not completely up on  
> GML these days, but there was a Cubewerx sponsored version,  
> originally called "Level 0 GML".
>
> Look at 06-049r1 http://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/index.php? 
> artifact_id=15201&passcode=ct88wquu06vyr2n3588h
>
> If that link fails, try this - http://www.opengeospatial.org/ 
> standards/gml and look near the bottom of the 3.1.1 series.
>
> 	Allan
>
> On Aug 29, 2007, at 17:50 , Jody Garnett wrote:
>
>> Yet another format is never a great idea :-) If you really want  
>> another format why not punt H2 databases around? It is what the  
>> SQLLite file format crazy in the C++ world is all about ... think  
>> even FDO does something like that?
>>
>>> [1] A CSV file in which the first row contains feature attribute  
>>> names, the second row identifies feature attribute data types  
>>> using standard XML data types and WKT for geometry attributes,  
>>> and in which the other rows contain the actual attribute values,  
>>> one feature per row.
>>>
>> You are welcome to look at the property file format we use as an  
>> example in GeoTools.
>>>
>>> [2] A restricted form of GML 2 that will eliminate the need for  
>>> an external schema and simplify parsing. Think of this as “GML 2  
>>> Resurrected”.
>>>
>> This is the way to go;
>> - you will find that the OGC has a SimpleFeature profile of GML3  
>> that can be put to good use.
>> - ESRI also has something insane to the same effect
>>
>> Not sure you will every eliminate the need for an external schema  
>> - but why not put it inline at the top of the document? Consider  
>> it a "header" for the rest of the file ... that is how WSDL and MS  
>> does it.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Jody
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