[Fwd: Re: [OSGeo-Standards] OGC name for a tile cache]

[Cameron Shorter]

Some clarification from Cubewerx:

Panagiotis (Peter) A. Vretanos wrote:
Cameron,

First, as the editor of the WFS specification, I can tell you that the 
suffix '-T' has no official meaning whatsoever.  Sure, lots of people 
with a penchant for acronyms attach all sorts of suffixes to WFS (WFS-T, 
WFS-X, WRS-blah) to mean one thing or another but the specification 
itself does not use any of these suffixes.  It simply define two 
conformance classes based on the operations that the server offers.

As for the web map tiling service, the official acronym is WMTS.  This 
is not considered to be a WMS with tiling capabilities but an entirely 
new service API for a tiled mapping service.

Ciao.



Panagiotis (Peter) A. Vretanos wrote:
> Cameron,
>
> Checked with Edric and ...
>
> It is OK to forward my response BUT not the paper I sent you since it 
> is not yet publicly available from OGC.
>
> Ciao.
>
> Cameron Shorter wrote:
>> Peter,
>> Is it ok if I forward your response to the osgeo standards email list?
>>
>> Panagiotis (Peter) A. Vretanos wrote:
>>> Cameron,
>>>
>>> First, as the editor of the WFS specification, I can tell you that 
>>> the suffix '-T' has no official meaning whatsoever.  Sure, lots of 
>>> people with a penchant for acronyms attach all sorts of suffixes to 
>>> WFS (WFS-T, WFS-X, WRS-blah) to mean one thing or another but the 
>>> specification itself does not use any of these suffixes.  It simply 
>>> define two conformance classes based on the operations that the 
>>> server offers.
>>>
>>> As for the web map tiling service, the official acronym is WMTS.  
>>> This is not considered to be a WMS with tiling capabilities but an 
>>> entirely new service API for a tiled mapping service.  I have 
>>> attached the discussion paper for your perusal.
>>>
>>> Ciao.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Cameron Shorter wrote:
>>>> Peter, Edric,
>>>> I might have asked this question on the wrong list. Maybe you would 
>>>> be better positioned to answer the question for the community.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Subject:
>>>> Re: [OSGeo-Standards] OGC name for a tile cache
>>>> From:
>>>> Daniel Morissette <dmorissette at mapgears.com>
>>>> Date:
>>>> Wed, 05 Dec 2007 17:31:02 -0500
>>>> To:
>>>> Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>
>>>>
>>>> To:
>>>> Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>
>>>> CC:
>>>> standards at lists.osgeo.org, Andreas Hocevar 
>>>> <andreas.hocevar at gmail.com>, Roald de Wit <roald.dewit at lisasoft.com>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Cameron Shorter wrote:
>>>>> We have heard rumours that Tile Cache will be called OGC:WMS-T.
>>>>>
>>>>> Currently we reference a Tile Cache as:
>>>>>    <Layer queryable="0" hidden="0">
>>>>>      <Server service="OGC:WMS-C" version="1.0.0" title="Tiled Cache">
>>>>>        <OnlineResource xlink:type="simple" 
>>>>> xlink:href="http://labs.metacarta.com/wms/vmap0"/>
>>>>>      </Server>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hopefully you meant WMS-C and not WMS-T ... since the -T suffix is 
>>>> already used in WFS-T to mean transactional, it would be very 
>>>> confusing to have that same suffix in WMS-T meaning something else.
>>>>
>>>> Daniel
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>


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