Hey Martin, Joining the OGC GeoAPI group would be great. Is this something I can sign up for now, or do I have to wait for the meeting at ESRI?
Cheers, Chris On 12/4/12 6:05 PM, "Martin Desruisseaux" <[email protected]> wrote: >Hello Adam > >Le 05/12/12 07:14, Adam Estrada a écrit : >> As for GeoAPI, why has nothing been done with that project in so long? >Since that GeoAPI mission is to express standards in Java interfaces, it >try to avoid defining new API by itself, unless there is no alternative. >On the Units aspects, there is no OGC/ISO standards I'm aware of (at >least nothing as complete as Unit Of Measurement), and in a few talks >with other OGC members, peoples I talked too were apparently in >agreement that defining a Unit API was not GeoAPI mission. So we tried >to adopt something standard. After JSR failure we wanted to switch to >Unit Of Measurement but then they were some rumours that a Unit package >could be standardized as a side effect of a new JSR about sensor >devices. I would feel uncomfortable to switch to Unit Of Measurement API >and discover a little bit later that a new "javax.measure" package has >been standardized. Since GeoAPI is supposed to be OGC standard since >version 3.0.0, it aims for as much stability as we can. So I was in a >"wait and see" position, but this "wait and see" has been too long now... > > >> it seems like the projects could benefit each other nicely. >Yes. Having Chris joining the OGC GeoAPI group as an OGC member, and and >other interested peoples who can be OGC member, would be a big help. The >intend is to increase the discussions. > > Martin >
