[OSGeo-Standards] Re: [tiling] OGC Tiled WMS Discussion Paper

Sophia Parafina sophia.parafina at ionicenterprise.com
Fri Sep 7 13:11:31 EDT 2007


It's still in the members area in the List of Pending Documents.   I 
forget the policy, but you can probably request a copy.

sophia

Paul Ramsey wrote:
> Where would we get a copy to comment? I don't see it here 
> http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/dp
>
> P.
>
> Frank Warmerdam wrote:
>   
>> Folks,
>>
>> I was contacted by Edric Keighan about a discussion paper that was
>> recently submitted to OGC (with Cubewerx as the editor) titled:
>>
>>    07-057r2 OpenGIS Tiled WMS Discussion Paper
>>
>> I believe it is roughly comparible in goals to this work:
>>
>>    http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/WMS_Tile_Caching
>>
>> I believe Edric is interested in feedback on the paper and support for the
>> proposal (for those of us who are OGC members) and perhaps more importantly
>> he is interested in implementations of the specification within our projects
>> with OpenLayers being the most obvious candidate.
>>
>> I believe he has also contacted Cameron Shorter who is an OGC member and
>> who is directly involved with OpenLayers.  I'm hoping that Cameron will
>> review the paper and perhaps compare and contrast with the WMS Tile Caching
>> spec at:
>>
>>    http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/WMS_Tile_Caching
>>
>> I haven't been to involved in the tiling spec in the past, so I'm going to
>> mostly back out of this discussion now, but I wanted to ensure everyone is
>> aware of what is going on, and that we open up some discussion.
>>
>> Anyone wanting to contact Edric can do so at the email in the cc:.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>     
>
>
>   



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