Roald, FYI: <ahocevar> Hi CameronShorter, His Majesty wanted to see me? <CameronShorter> hee, hee, hee. <ahocevar> What's on your mind? <CameronShorter> Just wanted to make sure we were on the same page re: OGC standard naming convensions. <ahocevar> So the question is: to WMS-C or not to WMS-C? <CameronShorter> It seems that WMS-C will be used to describe a component WMS, and that the Cached WMS as it stands doesn't have standard to latch onto. <CameronShorter> But I'm expecting there to be a heated debate soon over what is included in a Tiled WMS standard. <CameronShorter> So for the moment, I think we should avoid changing anything until the dust settles. <CameronShorter> Which I believe is what you are suggesting too. <ahocevar> I totally agree. <ahocevar> So no Extension, but keep using WMS-C to tell Mapbuilder that we want "singleTile=false" <CameronShorter> The problem that we are about to hit very soon is what to name the Component WMS. Maybe C-WMS (for the moment) <CameronShorter> Yes <ahocevar> I do not know the influence of Metacarta on the OGC, but they keep referring to the tiled WMS as implemented in TileCache and Geoserver as WMS-C. <CameronShorter> (Roald is implementing a Component WMS now - he has it working in Openlayers, and should have a Mapbuilder version early next week) <ahocevar> Which means what? <CameronShorter> I believe he is working in a sandbox, so shouldn't have any effect on 1.5 or the trunk. <CameronShorter> Should be rolled into the trunk soon. <ahocevar> Cool. And for referring to it in WMC, he will use C-WMS? <CameronShorter> Yes, I think so. <CameronShorter> Unless you have a better idea. <ahocevar> No, I'm in favour of this! <CameronShorter> ok, Thanks. <CameronShorter> I'm off to bed now. <CameronShorter> night.
Cameron Shorter wrote: > Andreas, > I'm on IRC for the next 20 mins or so, if you are around. > > Comments inline. > > Andreas Hocevar wrote: >> Hi, >> >> if we really are afraid of using terms that are not standard yet, we >> have to use the Extension tag of OWSContext / Web Map Context to tell >> Mapbuilder that we want a tiled layer. This could be done in a matter of >> minutes, but I thought Cameron was not a friend of using the >> Extension tag. >> > Correct, I'm not keen on the extension tag. > > Andreas Hocevar wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Roald de Wit wrote: >> >>> Cameron has received some clarification about WMS-C: it is going to be >>> used for Component WMS. >>> >> >> I am going to believe this as soon as there is a OWSContext spec, or a >> Component-WMS spec that refers to this abbreviation, or a service type >> for Web Map Context officially referred to by the OGC. >> >> Currently, because there is nothing official from the OGC, I do believe >> in http://tilecache.org/#wmsc >> >> >>> That of course has consequences for our use of it in MB. Since WMS-C is >>> now reserved for something other than TileCached WMS, do you think we >>> should create a new blocking issue for 1.5rc1 and fix the naming? >>> >> >> Nothing is reserved, our code is working well, and I am not in favour of >> blocking a release just because we are quicker than the OGC. > > Andreas, your logic makes sense. > I think that WMS-C is most likely going to refer to a Component WMS as > being defined in the current OGC testbed. But as you say, we are ahead > of the curve again and should not hold up our build in order to be > compatible. The consequence is that some of our OWS Context docs will > break in the next release. But we can live with that. > > -- Cameron Shorter Geospatial Systems Architect Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050 Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254 Think Globally, Fix Locally Commercial Support for Geospatial Open Source Solutions http://www.lisasoft.com/LISAsoft/SupportedProducts.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ mapbuilder-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mapbuilder-devel
