fwiw... I think esri was the first to coin the term coverage in relation to geographic data and it represented a proprietary file format for storing network topology, OGC later came out with Web Coverage Service for pulling raster data set data over the web. Looks like Jon Blower is lead author of the coveragejson spec and, after a quick glance, that it incorporates a lot of his work on data types in Climate Science Modelling Language (CSML) but now encoded as JSON. Should be a good addition imo.
cheers, Dave On Wed, May 3, 2023 at 11:21 AM Martin Desruisseaux < [email protected]> wrote: > Hello Werner > > Le 03/05/2023 à 18:20, Werner Keil a écrit : > > > The name sounds a little odd for something related to Geospatial data, > > I thought it was some kind of Coverage standard for JSON. ;-) > > > It is true that "coverage" could be confused with "test coverage". But > actually in the geospatial world, I think that "coverage" is more widely > understood as data rather than test. This "coverage" is a generalization > of raster data (the latter is also known as "grid coverage"). > > Martin > > -- David Neufeld CIRES, University of Colorado Boulder & NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)
