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

[creed at opengeospatial.org]

Peter is correct that WFS-T etc has become an easy way for folks to
express whether they are dealing with a WFS that is read only or a WFS
that also supports transactions. There is no standard OGC naming
convention for such ad-hoc extensions to the names of OGC standards.

As to the draft tiling service documents, from an OGC process perspective,
there is no official name for the tiling interface.

Regards

Carl


> On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 07:22:11AM +1100, Cameron Shorter wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Good to know that they've gone against all the recommendations of the
> tiling group at FOSS4G2006...
>
> I'm Still waiting for the document to be published publicly so that I
> can offer feedback. We were told 'Soon' at FOSS4G2007, and I've not
> heard anything yet. This is beyond a level that I would describe as
> 'soon'. Can anyone at OGC comment on that? Or did I miss something
> becoming available? I have been keeping an eye out.
>
> Regards,
> --
> Christopher Schmidt
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