Geography Markup Language (GML) 3.3 is now out for public comment. Not to say that this isn’t exciting on its own merits, but there’s an incredibly new feature in it — compact encodings! Clause 7 (page 16 in the PDF) has a great little section called “Compact Encodings of Commonly Used GML Geometries.” It...
Many people have asked me about software that supports GML 3.2. This version of GML is pretty new, but it’s probably the most important version of GML since it’s the one that has become the ISO standard for geographic encoding in XML. Recently I got at email from the folks at The Carbon Project,...
In the OGC Mass Market Geo Working Group meeting yesterday, I presented the preliminary findings of the group brainstorming about the future of KML in the OWS-5 testbed. Most of what was discussed isn’t ready for prime time, so I’ll wait to talk about for a few months, but one critical point that everyone...
See my post on the GeoRSS blog. Hope someone can help out.
In the OGC meetings last week WFS Simple was presented to the membership as a part of the “OWS4 GeoDSS Mass Market (formerly GeoRSS) IPR” (note this link will only work for OGC members for a few more days). It was approved as a discussion paper, which is a document that’s worth making public,...