[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 08/17/2006 11:02:47 PM:
> Updated the page with a quote from the WFS 1.1 specification, and > explained that the URN approach was an experiment carried out by the OGC > as part of OWS-3. I do expect a future WMS specification to use this > approach, however you are correct that only a standards body can "force" > agreement on these issues. Can we please ask our representatives at TOPP > to explore these issues within the context of OWS-4, possible referring > to your page. Thanks! It helps to have background from those who made the history. ;) OWS-3 : <= 2004 WMS1.3.0: 2006 I think I see signs that WMS 1.3.0, while not flat-out adopting the URN approach, produced a solution that appears to be informed by OWS-3. For instance, the provision to use a URL wherever a EPSG:<code> is found smacks of OWS-3 results (particularly option 2, using http://www.opengis.net/gml/srs/epsg.xml#<EPSG code>. It appears that they've expanded on the concept by allowing any URL which points to a file with a CRS definition. So where OWS-3 uses a URL as an alternate means of CRS ID reference (e.g., maybe that URL doesn't refer to a file at all?), WMS 1.3.0 seems to use a URL in the more "normal" sense of locating a file on the web. By doing so, they just happen to have gone a long way to addressing most of our major issues. I would like our buddies at TOPP to use WMS 1.3.0 in OWS-4, since it appears that it makes some improvements in this very area... Updated with an "education of data providers" solution. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
