XML for Image and map Annotation is still a "skunk works" specification. WMC is widely implemented in software such as openlayers. OWC is pretty new, so less implementation right now, but will probably be adopted by most of the WMC implementers. --- Raj
On Nov 24, at 12:42 PM, Sean Gillies wrote: > Hang on there, Raj, does anybody actually use these outside of OGC > test > beds? > > What Miles described sounds more or less like Google's "My Maps", and > could be accomplished using the same standards: ECMAScript, HTML, > HTTP/1.1, KML. > > http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/04/map-making-so-easy-caveman-could-do-it.html > > Cheers, > Sean > > Raj Singh wrote: >> Three OGC discussions are relevant (but not exact solutions) to this >> topic: >> >> XML for Image and map Annotation >> Defines an XML vocabulary to encode annotations on imagery, maps, and >> other geospatial data >> http://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=1020 >> >> Web Map Context document (WMC) >> XML format for describing a map layout based on WMS services >> http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/wmc >> >> >> Open Web Context document (OWC) >> Extends WMC to include other services and data types like WFS, WCS, >> KML, and GML >> http://www.ogcnetwork.net/schemas/owc/0.3.0/ >> >> --- >> Raj >> >> >> On Nov 24, at 12:16 PM, Miles Rose wrote: >> >>> I have to put together a spec for a mapping project. Where user >>> append >>> data to map and can then prioritize data for display, etc. Does >>> anyone >>> have a spec to use as a template? >>> >>> Sorry for being clueless here but that's the way it is. >>> >>> Also, if there are ny entrepreneurial geocoders out there I would >>> like >>> to hear from you. I'm working on a startup and have capital to pay >>> salary with equity, ie not market rates but whats needed to keep on >>> going, but the equity should, we all hope, make up for it. >>> >>> Miles >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Geowanking mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Geowanking mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Geowanking mailing list > [email protected] > http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org
