My vote is for GeoJSON because:
- Full support on OGR, so trivial conversion to pretty much any other existing GIS format. http://www.gdal.org/ogr/ogr_formats.html - Web application friendly - Human readable On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 6:27 PM, Pranesh Prakash <[email protected]>wrote: > Shapefiles will not meet the the requisite features of standards used by > the government as per the National Open Standards Policy. GML and KML > would work well, and perhaps GeoJSON too. > > From the NOSP: > > 4.1.1 Specification document of the Identified Standard shall be > available with or without a nominal fee. > 4.1.2 The Patent claims necessary to implement the Identified Standard > shall be made available on a Royalty-Free basis for the life time of the > Standard. > 4.1.3 Identified Standard shall be adopted and maintained by a > not-for-profit organization, wherein all stakeholders can opt to > participate in a transparent, collaborative and consensual manner. > 4.1.4 Identified Standard shall be recursively open as far as possible. > 4.1.5 Identified Standard shall have technology-neutral specification. > 4.1.6 Identified Standard shall be capable of localization support, > where applicable, for all Indian official Languages for all applicable > domains. > > > The desirable characteristics are: > 4.2.1 Open Standard having multiple implementations from different > agencies. > 4.2.2 Open Standard widely used in India for which technical expertise > and support exists in India. > 4.2.3 Open Standard that has Extensions and / or Subsets meeting > mandatory characteristics of section 4.1. > > The 'Interoperability Framework for E-Governance' (IFEG) doesn't mention > any standard for geographic data. > > Sajjad Anwar [2013-02-06 15:13]: > > GPX and KML are interesting and open. These formats are quite commonly > > used during data collection through GPS devices. > > GPX can represent waypoints, tracks and routes efficiently. When it > > comes to complex geometry like polygon and multi-polygons, GPX is not > > preferred. KML can take care of these geometries but I've always found > > it difficult to deal with KML as a form of geospatial information > > exchange. Plus, KML was introduced to work entirely with Google Earth > > and their upward geospatial stack. I'm not quite sure whether we would > > want to endorse them. > > > > Shapefiles (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapefiles) are extremely > > efficient and widely used, but ESRI has a handle on them and they can > > flip the switch to make it a closed standard any day (hopefully not). > > If we are ignoring this, I would highly recommend Shapefiles. > > > > In fact, Riju and I spoke about this briefly yesterday and we think > > the Geographic Markup Language > > (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_Markup_Language) is a good > > choice. It was developed by the Open Geospatial Consortium > > (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Geospatial_Consortium) and is > > widely recognised as an information exchange format. The GDAL OGR > > (http://www.gdal.org/ogr/) library can help you deal with it in > > whatever ways you want. Moving to a web paradigm, I prefer GeoJSON > > over anything. http://geojson.org/ > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeoJSON. They are fast, simple. Extended > > from JSON. Modern maps libraries can easily store and represent > > GeoJSON. > > > > My preference will go like this: > > 1. Shapefiles > > 2. Geographic Markup Language > > 3. GeoJSON > > 4. KML. > > > > Cheers, > > Sajjad. > > > > > > On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 2:13 PM, Thejesh GN <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi All, > >> Team Data.Gov.In wants suggestions for GIS Open Data Formats. They > would > >> like to use some of those formats to publish GIS data on Data.Gov.In > >> website. Please do send your suggestions by replying to this chain. > >> > >> > >> Mine: > >> GPX - GPS eXchange Format > >> - Its an OpenFormat > >> - Wiki : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPS_eXchange_Format > >> - http://www.topografix.com/gpx.asp > >> > >> KML > >> - Started by Google > >> - But it became an Open Standard > >> http://www.opengeospatial.org/pressroom/pressreleases/857 > >> - Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyhole_Markup_Language > >> > >> There are many more listed here. Not sure how many of them makes sense > in > >> this context . > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> Thej > >> -- > >> Thejesh GN | ತೇಜೇಶ್ ಜಿ.ಎನ್ > >> http://thejeshgn.com > >> GPG ID : 0xBFFC8DD3C06DD6B0 > >> > >> -- > >> For more details about this list > >> http://datameet.org/discussions/ > >> --- > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > >> "datameet" group. > >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an > >> email to [email protected]. > >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > >> > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > Sajjad Anwar | W: http://sajjad.in | T: @geohacker > > > > > -- > Pranesh Prakash > Policy Director > Centre for Internet and Society > T: +91 80 40926283 | W: http://cis-india.org > PGP ID: 0x1D5C5F07 | Twitter: @pranesh_prakash > > -- Arun Ganesh (planemad) <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Planemad> -- For more details about this list http://datameet.org/discussions/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "datameet" group. 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