Andrea,
I actually agree with you on all counts. On the bright side I think GS/GT
has a very solid foundation to make this happen, so it's a matter of
prioritizing / executing on this vision.
2012/4/20 Andrea Aime <[email protected]>
> On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 6:23 PM, Juan Marín Otero <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> That said, as long as we implement OGC protocols better to it right
>>> and try to play ball so that we can work with both the old and new schemas
>>> seamlessly.
>>>
>>> At the same time really believe it's time to look into implementing
>>> restful alternatives to the OGC protocols so that we keep up to date
>>> with what the client developers expects (if what I've seen at FOSS4G-NA
>>> is any indication, the expectation is "anything but not OGC").
>>>
>>>
>>
>> The developer crowd at FOSS4GNA is not necessarily representative of the
>> user base for GeoServer / GeoTools. Many projects coming from Government
>> still mandate OGC services.
>>
>>
>
> I know, but it's kind of new to me to participate to a 3 days conference
> and not remembering a single mention of OGC protocols
> during conversations and presentations I've looked at. I was used to hear
> people complaining mostly, not hearing it mentioned at
> all was a surprise.
>
> That said, I'm not saying we should abandon OGC, not at all, we definitely
> want to keep implementing new specs as they come by
> and improve our support to existing standards (thinking about optional
> portions of the protocol we still don't implement).
> INSPIRE in Europe guarantees there will be a OGC user base for those
> protocols for quite some time, and so does the application
> schema community.
>
> I'm just saying that we should _also_ start looking more actively into
> RESTful equivalents of the OGC protocols to have a complete
> (and up to date) set of options for data access. If we don't we risk that
> our user base shrinks as people migrate to other implementations
> offering what is perceived as a easier to use set of protocols.
>
> Cheers
> Andrea
>
>
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