[OSGeo-Standards] Does OSGeo really "understand" OGC?

[Even Rouault]

I'm definitely done with the CRS SWG. I had resigned once, so I'm not 
sure if I can resign one more time lol. There's too much bad faith over 
there. I don't remember if we have a limiter number of seats with OGC, 
but if so, take back mine. Hopefully someone will have a more productive 
use of it than me.

Le 17/12/2024 à 19:27, Even Rouault via Standards a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> This is not going to be politically correct, but maybe this will serve 
> as a testimony for people considering being involved in standards 
> group. I've been *so* frustrated over the past years with the way the 
> OGC CRS working group operates. OGC doesn't work like our OSGeo 
> communities do, and I'm still not fully understanding what's going on 
> there. There is an absurd trend of creating standards/formats for the 
> sake of it apparently, and a total lack of pragmatism and ignoring 
> open implementations. My experience up to now has been:
>
> - the CRS SWG creating this netCDF-based GGXF (Geodetic Grid eXchange 
> Format) as a reaction to PROJ GTG (geodetic TIFF grids: 
> https://proj.org/en/stable/specifications/geodetictiffgrids.html). End 
> result: no open implementation of GGXF and apparently no open data 
> production under GGXF. On the contrary we see geodetic grid producers 
> release under GTG.
>
> - the current work item of the CRS SWG is CRS-JSON 
> (https://github.com/opengeospatial/CRS-JSON-Encoding). So this thing 
> is supposed to build on top of PROJJSON 
> (https://proj.org/en/stable/specifications/projjson.html) that has 
> been deployed for more than 5 years, but the current trend seems to be 
> they are going to diverge from it in a backwards incompatible way, 
> just because they can (or because they want to play with some UML -> 
> JSONSchema conversion tool).
>
> Maybe the OSGeo-OGC MOU is still valuable to have some advanced 
> warning to what's going on on OGC side and trying to influence, but 
> there's obviously little consideration from OGC side on OSGeo 
> implementations.
>
> Even
>
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