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| Subject: | Re: GISList: Re: Effective Standards |
| Date: |
04/24/2003 06:45:01 PM |
| From: |
Paul Ramsey |
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Peter Baumann wrote:
>> If OpenGIS wrote a binary client/server specification that included
>> a BSD-licensed reference implementation library it would be
>> immediately (a) useful and (b) used.
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> Why then isn't the U of Minnesota server the gold standard, used by
> all? (Again, just an example...)
(a) Because it is "just an implementation" not a "reference
implementation" which coexisted with the standard.
(b) Do not be so quick to assume it will *not* be the gold standard. I
don't see any other high performance, zero cost, multiformat rendering
engines available out there. WMS support in Mapserver is barely a year old.
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| Refractions Research
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