[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Journal Volume 11 (2011 Annual Report) Published
I'm pleased to announce the release of the OSGeo Journal Volume 11. This is the 2011 Annual Report for our organization. I would like to thank Scott Mitchell for his work on the News article, and all the chapters and software projects that contributed report items. I also need to give a HUGE thank you to Eli Adam, who put in many hours of review and copy editing on this volume. With all of his help, this volume, and future volumes will be much improved. For the time being, you can download Volume 11 from this folder of the SVN: http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/journal/volume_11/en-us/master_pdf/ The file is 14 MB, so it takes a minute to download. I'm also in the process of trying to post each of the articles on the Journal blog: http://geojournaleditor.com/category/volume-11/ Here is the table of contents for Volume 11: - Editorial - Volunteer Recognition - News - degree Software Project Annual Report - GeoMoose Software Project Annual Report - GRASS Software Project Annual Report - QGIS Software Project Annual Report - California Chapter Annual Report - Francophone Chapter Annual Report - Greek Chapter Annual Report - Italian Chapter Annual Report - Korean Chapter Annual Report - PDX Chapter Annual Report - United Kingdom Chapter Annual REport - Project Spotlight: pycsw - Interview: Anita Graser - Case Study: Applying OpenJUMP to the Management of Sanitary Sewer Networks - Topical Article: Sharing GIS Data Models - Topical Article: The SurveyOS Project: Getting Started With Simple Waypoints - Editor's Footnote: Do We Need A Journal? Enjoy. Landon ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Journal Volume 11 (2011 Annual Report) Published
Hello, Unfortunately the piece in the OSGeo Journal, vol 11, on 'Simple Features' is promulgating a common misconception. It turns out that 'Simple Features' are *not* constrained to have a flat table of attributes. 'Simple Features' are only restricted to have a single geometry which must be 'simple.' The attributes may be arbitrarily nested and may be in different namespaces. Also the 'simple' geometry, which traditionally included only elements in 2D with linearly interpolated arcs (points, lines, polygons) are now being expanded to more forms and possibly more dimensions. So it turns out that 'Simple Features,' as discussed in the standards group, are not so simple. We do need a term to talk about the kinds of features discussed in the article. The best I have discovered is 'Flat Feature' which implies: 1) no explicit discussion of temporality 2) a single spatial definition, which must be 2D and only use linear interpolation 3) have a 'flat' table of other attributes, that is that attributes are not nested in each other. The 'flat' in the name refers both to the geometry and to the form of the attributes, which could form a single row in a table. cheers, ~adrian ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
