[OSGeo-Standards] An idea about a compressed binary geometry format

[Nicklas Avén]

Hallo

I do not know if this list is the right place so that will be my first
question.

I have a naive idea about a compressed binary format for geometries.

I have done some work to sketch what it is about.

The name so far is TWKB (Tiny WKB)

Can this list be the right place to discuss this format. It is just an
embryo, and my hope is that it can be something designed by and hard
connected to the FOSS4G-community.


What is done is:

A draft of a spec:
https://github.com/nicklasaven/TWKB/blob/master/twkb.md

including ideas from Evan Rouault and Oliver Tonnhofer 


Demos:
Streaming TWKB from PostGIS to Leaflet via websocket.
http://178.79.156.122/twkb_node/

Streaming TWKB-aggregates (tiles created on the fly) from PostGIS to
Leaflet
http://178.79.156.122/twkb_agg

A page to compare twkb in timing and size with geoJSON directly from
PostGIS.
http://178.79.156.122/twkb_test


Examples of implementation.
The PostGIS part is in the trunk:
http://svn.osgeo.org/postgis/trunk/

The client parts is exemplified here:
https://github.com/nicklasaven/twkb_web


So, first, can this list host discussions about TWKB (or whatever name
it gets)?
If not where should it go?

Second, any feedback is very welcome



Best Regards

Nicklas Avén