Great discussion! 2012/4/9 Eric Wolf <[email protected]>: > OGC should troll those communities and cherry pick good > ideas, wrap them in a formal specification, and get their members to adopt > them.
OGC has tried this and continues to engage with the communities. However it's process isn't well aligned with how these communities typically work. It still requires membership and heavy engagement to work the standard through this process. see GeoRSS, OpenSearch, et al. > Wouldn't it be great to have native OSM Planet File and SpatiaLite > support in ArcGIS? I disagree with the sentiment that if ArcGIS doesn't support it then it won't win. Look at Tom's own work in pushing MBTiles as a common format and the broad success by utilization. I also think that highlights a very important note on specification and "ease of use". GeoJSON is simple, but I can't grab any "GeoJSON" feed and put it in my generic parser and be done. Like XML, JSON is an encoding but not a schema. The best format I've seen anywhere that every tool uses and is easy and powerful? CSV > > Wouldn't it be great to be able to use Google Maps with OpenLayers? Oh wait, > that already works... Hmmm... Maybe the problem is more concentrated than it > seems. > Not really, and I think this is also an important note. OpenLayers includes the Google Maps API within its code. This is the same for Mapstraction. And generally, outside our world of Geo, this is the most common pattern for interoperability. You have a big enough service where the traction and value outweigh the implementation effort so you choose to include it. For example, look at ifttt (if this then that). It's a highly 'interoperable' cron for the web. It doesn't work because the dozen+ services follow a standard other than HTTP but the developers find the interfaces either easy enough, or in demand enough, to write unique wrappers. I hope that we can devise a better solution. As a neogeographer and crafter of a general data sharing platform, I love it when I can 'drop' a file or URL and any of my users can immediately see the output of their effort. Andrew _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org
