Hi, This is Josh Lieberman, on the staff of the OGC. I’ve been interested for a while in helping to standardize geospatial data types for various python packages and other mainstream computing tools. The goal is to help base these on common, valid geospatial models in order to make data sharing across tools and platforms more reliable. Another goal is to help avoid reinventing wheels. For example, PostGIS supports EWKT and EWKB which already include SRID’s.
We (OGC) are specifically interested in working with our partners, such as Apache, to host an “Encoding Summit” at our September or December Member Meeting. A principle focus will be JSON encodings, but data type encodings for other environments are also of interest. One outcome could be an Encodings working group that targets “round trip” interoperability between various encodings. Another could simply be joint work items to further these objectives. Let me know if you might be interested in participating. Thanks, Josh > On Jun 28, 2021, at 12:49 PM, Martin Desruisseaux > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Le 28/06/2021 à 18:07, Jim Hughes a écrit : >> Would the [email protected] mailing list be a good place to discuss >> things? > > Sure please do. I'm not familiar with the arrow project but I could try to > participate on the use of international standards (OGC and ISO) on the > following topics: > > * SRID (or more generally Coordinate Reference Systems) > * WKB or WKT for geometries > * Queries using standard spatial filters (defined by OGC) > > Martin > >
