On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 5:08 AM, Phil Scadden <[email protected]> wrote:

>  >The spec has the writer name on the cover... oddly enough, it seems
> this spec was made
>  >by a single person/company alone (first of the kind I see regarding
> OGC specs).
>
> Sounds like a broken specification process to me. No way to appeal?
>

Nope, that's the way ESA wants things to get done.
All EO specs I've seen so far have, in some way or the other, some
bits that are clearly against the spec it builds upon.


>  >Thought as much. Still thinking of ways to make the "layer in the
> root" behavior
>  >sort of pluggable, so that it's not there unless the EO extensions are
> activated.
>
> I can see EO geophysics being part of our future but to be honest, I was
> thinking about it terms of ordinary layer groups. On the client side,
> one of the issues is to group or not group layers when requesting from
> WMS. Grouping gives faster loading but you lose the utility of switching
> layers on and off.  We have a creator utility for making map configs and
> it relies heavily on getcaps but the result is rather dumb. What you
> were suggesting suggests that you could effectively structures getcaps
> be structure and then you could decide whether pick individual layers or
> groups. For tools using getcaps, it becomes a way to organise geoserver
> contents which can be a complete mess.
>
>
Yep

Cheers
Andrea


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