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| Subject: | Re: GISList: RE: OGC and Standards, - a response |
| Date: |
12/11/2002 08:01:24 PM |
| From: |
Paul Ramsey |
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Carl,
As an organization which has spent a fair amount of time trying to get
an SFSQL open source database out there (postgis.refractions.net) I do
have a question, which speaks to the idea of OGC partners leveraging
their membership for preferential treatment:
Why was SFSQL "conformance" broken into several parts (normalized
geometry, and types and functions)? There is nothing sillier to me than
seeing OracleSpatial in the list of "conformant" products when they have
essentially ignored the SFSQL required functions list, and required text
representations. The whole "normalized geometry" category seems like
little more than a trick to allow Oracle to claim a "conformance" they
are not willing to make the effort to achieve. So why was the category made?
Irked but not broken,
Paul
creediii@mindspring.com wrote:
> Third, I want to address what I consider the most misleading statement you
> made: “So, by default, it is yet another expensive vehicle for the major
> vendors to leverage their products and solidify their strangle hold on the
> market, only with an added endorsement by OGC."
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> While some of the major players in the industry have worked very hard on many
> of the specifications already available and in progress, there is no way that
> this work “solidifies …a strangle hold on the market.” Open specifications are
> just that “open.” That means that any software that implements an interface
> specification can “carry on a conversation” with any other software that
> implements the same interface. The opportunity to have software packages speak
> to one another does not lock shut the marketplace. On the contrary, it opens
> and extends the market to more players – both technology providers as well as
> technology consumers. As a matter of fact, the larger GIS players are to be
> commended for their willingness and commitment to open their systems by
> implementing OpenGIS specifications. However, many of the current approved
> OpenGIS specifications have been driven to completion by both user
> organizations as well as the non-traditional geospatial vendors.
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| Paul Ramsey
| Refractions Research
| Email: pramsey@refractions.net
| Phone: (250) 885-0632
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