Patrick, others,
OSGeo and related OGC communities have been successful previously in
stopping ESRI's inappropriate creation of OGC standards. See here:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Geoservices_REST_API
I'd suggest that if we as OSGeo wish to be effective at blocking a
vendor lock-in tactic,
Hi Cameron,
Thank you for this excellent suggestion. I remember this previous Geoservices
REST API issues and discussions.
Patrick - Could you please start a wiki page and input as much information as
you know on this (ideally in the same structure as the Geoservices REST API
wiki ). Once it
Hi Patrick,
Thanks for bringing this to our attention. I believe the OSGeo Board need to
look into this and prepare a position paper with inputs from the community as
this has wider implications. This also need to be discussed with like minded
organisations. We all can provide the needed
Thanks Patrick for surfacing this. Yes, this should be opened up for
scrutiny by the entire community and we should all weigh in.
On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 4:13 PM, Suchith Anand
suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk wrote:
Hi Patrick,
Thanks for bringing this to our attention. I believe the OSGeo
