Hello all
A GeoAPI meeting has been scheduled at the next OGC meeting (Geneva), on
Wednesday, 11 June at 13h00 [1]. The main topic would be a proposal for
a set of Feature interfaces based on the UML at figure 5 of ISO
19109:2013 (Rules for application schema - currently in draft). If time
allows, I would also like a first look on the changes needed for
upgrading the metadata packages to ISO 19115:2014 (released a few months
ago).
Compared to the old GeoAPI feature model, the new feature model would
have less interfaces and less methods in the interfaces. The interface
hierarchy would also be made conformant to ISO (the current hierarchy is
more like a tree model than a feature model). While a few convenience
methods would be kept, more non-standard aspects would be left to
implementation choice.
Note that the GeoAPI feature model was in the "pending" part of GeoAPI -
this is not covered by the GeoAPI 3.0 specification voted at OGC, so we
do not have compatibility constraints from an OGC standards point of view.
I think it may take a year before to be ready to submit a new GeoAPI
specification proposal at OGC, in part because we are dependent on
JSR-363 progress [2]. This would hopefully leave enough time for testing
the feature model. Feedbacks are welcome
Martin
[1] http://www.opengeospatial.org/event/1406tcagenda
[2] https://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=363
