[OSGeo-Standards] Re: Use of logo for clickable icon

[Jody Garnett]

I wonder if we can think of something?

Easiest I could think of would be to define client conformance test
based around Open Web Service Contact documents (and/or Web Map Server
context documents).

1. Define a test suite of context documents - each defines the region;
layers and styling required
2. Have an upload (or paste) page for people to upload the screen snap
of their client
3. Process the resulting image with a histogram for the pass/fail
   (you can use more interesting things like edge detection and so on)

That would be fine for a POC.

For more advanced work you provide one of those visual testing tools
and ask people to generate you a script to load the context document
(click the buttons etc) and automate the process of taking the screen
snapshots etc... but that would be for after a POC.

Is this a good idea for a "Call for Participation"?

Jody

On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 5:27 AM, Raj Singh<rsingh at opengeospatial.org> wrote:
> Hi Dave. Unfortunately I don't have very good answers for you. OGC has no
> conformance testing programs for clients. This is a known hole in our
> offerings, but no one has suggested a clear, cost-effective strategy for
> doing client testing. We're open to ideas on this.
>
> Also, we don't have a nice way for you to advertise that your product
> implements OGC standards if it's not certified. Our existing policy on the
> use of OGC marks is here:
> http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/policies/trademark/
>
> I see that Quantum GIS is an OSGeo project. We have an MOU in place with
> OSGeo, and it would be a great contribution if OSGeo could do some work in
> this area and suggest some sort of policy in this area.
>
> -----
> Raj Singh
> Open Geospatial Consortium
> rsingh at opengeospatial.org
> +1 (617) 642-9372
>
> ** making location count **
>
>
>
> On Jul 14, at 4:10 PM, Greg Buehler wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject:        Use of logo for clickable icon
>> Date:   Sat, 11 Jul 2009 15:46:17 -0400
>> From:   Dave Sampson <samper.d at gmail.com>
>> To:     info at opengeospatial.org
>>
>>
>>
>> Hey Folks,
>>
>> I recently made a couple of plugins for use in QGIS an open source
>> desktop GIS application.
>>
>> During development I just grabbed the three-hexagonal OGC icon from the
>> address bar when visiting the site to use as a place holder.
>>
>> After looking at the other logos I feel they might be too large to use
>> for a clickable icon and the product is not yet certified (see bellow).
>>
>> Since the plugin is a CSW client I am wondering if there might be a more
>> appropriate icon I can use. I also made a GeoRSS plugin but I am using
>> the world icon with the RSS feed icon for the clickable icon and I
>> assume that is not an OGC trademark.
>>
>> About testing our plugins, they are clients. So how do I test a client
>> using CITE. it seems server centric and we are looking for tests to
>> consume data not serve data.
>>
>> Any thoughts?
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>
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