Hello Henrique, OGC members have adopted a policy of free and open standards, so a premium model does not fit our current mission.
I am going to move this conversation over to an OGC channel so that we can further discuss any potential for submission of your idea to our process. Thanks, Scott > On Oct 20, 2015, at 7:41 AM, Munich Orientation Convention > <volks...@volksnav.de> wrote: > > > Hello Scott, > > I like your questions. > > The most important is that the experts agree that r100 is a good and consumer > friendly Convention, at least for fast orientation purposes and as an > alternative to open squared systems or simply “here”. The specifications for > this piece of a polar system could be: > > 1 – Name: > r100 > > 2 - identification letter: > “r” as radius, > lower case. > > 3 - value: > 100, > which represents 100 “blocks of houses”, 100 x 100 meters or 100 x 100 yards. > > 4 - color: > red. > > 5 - conversion from lat/lon > acc. known geodetic algorithms. > > 6 - definition of urban pole: > according list …, > actually only on www.volksnav.de/mapplet <http://www.volksnav.de/mapplet>. > > The definition of these relevant urban poles is a result of many years of > hard work and I claim intellectual property. Here the question could arise: > “do you prefer open or optimal polar systems?”. > Does anybody know if the transition point NS/EW for post codes in London (a > strange mix polar/squared system ) is a relevant point? Please confirm: it’s > not. > > ---- > > The proposed specification didn’t come from members but could come active > from OGC side. Where there is a will, there is a way: is there the > possibility to create a premium standard for premium members? This would > surely increase the number of members. > > Henrique > > P. S.: Openwashing: > http://opensource.com/business/14/12/openwashing-more-prevalent > <http://opensource.com/business/14/12/openwashing-more-prevalent>
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