Location data is everywhere. From huge government databases of geographic features to your pictures in Facebook, it seems like almost every piece of information around nowadays is tagged with its location. However, it still seems that no one is effectively sharing information, or building the smart, next-generation systems that will surely rely on data...
If this is the year of the POI, next year is shaping up to be all about geospatial REST APIs. ESRI has ignited the debate by submitting their REST API to OGC for international standardization. This will move the back room discussions out into the light, and really push the community to make progress....
Joe Gregorio notes in The end of the AtomPub WG that the Atom Publishing Format and Protocol WG (atompub) in the Application Area has concluded. Developers can go into full programming mode knowing that the encodings and interfaces aren’t changing any time soon. Thanks AtomPub WG for a great standard.
In an email Sean Gillies called me out on the lack of good citations in my earlier post. I pleaded lack of sleep (notice how the number of URLs tails off quickly after the first 2 paragraphs!), but I’ll try to make up for it here. Instead of trying to cite all the individual...
REST has been a hot topic this year in the geo world. There’s a discussion group, a geographic data server, many blog posts, and email discussions. I’ve been mulling over what this means to OGC over the last couple months, reading RESTful Web Services, and discussing with the various advocates around the community. After...