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

[creed at opengeospatial.org]

One of the OGC documents approved for public release is the Tiled WMS
Discussion Paper. A Discussion Paper is not an official position of the
OGC. A Discussion Paper is released for information, discussion, and
comment. The Tiled WMS paper represents one proposal for how tiling should
be handled when using a WMS. There are obviously other approaches, many of
which have been discussed in the OGC WMS Revision Working Group.

The URL to the OGC Discussion Paper page is
http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/dp

Scroll down until you find the document.

Hope this helps.

Regards

Carl




> Peter, Edric,
> You may be able to answer Chris's questions.
>
> Christopher Schmidt wrote:
>> 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,
>>
>
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