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| Subject: | Re: GISList: OGC and Standards, - a response |
| Date: |
01/07/2003 11:20:52 AM |
| From: |
Rob Hranac |
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All,
Without wading into this discussion too deeply, it is probably worth
noting that our organization is an OGC member and we can hardly be
described as a large corporate vendor. More to the point of this
discussion, we are contracting to the OGC on an initiative (CITE) with
the sole goal of making a free, open source, compliant reference
implementation for its major web services specifications (WMS, WFS).
Our two other collaborators on this project are the Centre for
Computational Geography at Leeds (http://www.ccg.leeds.ac.uk/) and
lat/lon (http://www.lat-lon.de/), both members who also don't fit the
massive corporate monolith image some here are attempting to project on
the OGC.
I think that in this case, actions speak louder than words. As far as
the fact that collaborating to create good specs takes a long time, name
someone else in the geospatial world who is doing it faster than the
OGC. It has - in my opinion - done an admirable job of adhering to its
ideals while simultaneously creating a viable model for implementing
those ideals: the CITE project is just one of many examples of this.
Rob Hranac
The Open Planning Project
377 Broadway, 11th Floor
New York, NY 10013
w: www.openplans.org
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