I’ve spent the last year or so doing very little with geospatial technology, but I find myself missing it tremendously. Of course “in my blood” and “how I’m wired” and similar aphorisms apply to how I’m feeling, but that’s not what really has me missing geospatial. In a shocking (for me) turn of events, I…
Tag: OGC
Publishing GeoPackage to GeoServer Using QGIS
Recently, I had the occasion to attempt to generate an OGC GeoPackage from QGIS and publish it using GeoServer. The use case was fairly straightforward. I had been given data in GML format and needed to publish it. For many valid reasons (such as lack of spatial indexing), GeoServer does not natively support publishing GML…
OGC Abandons the Web
Those are my words, not theirs. It came to light today that OGC has decided to withdraw the GeoServices REST Specification, also known as the “ESRI REST API,” as a proposed standard. I will not take up the relative merits of the specification or the implications of OGC potentially adopting an industry-developed specification that has…
Comment Period Open for GeoPackage Specification Draft
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has published a draft GeoPackage specification for comment. The GeoPackage specification attempts to create a non-proprietary means for packaging and exchanging all geospatial data in all its forms (vector, raster, and tiles). A couple of things that jump out at me: It calls out SQLite as the reference implementation of…
GeoServices REST Specification and OGC
So this is what I get for missing the Ignite sessions at WhereCampDC*: Not sure if it has been mentioned, but ESRI announced that they are giving their REST API to OGC at #wherecampdc — spara (@spara) June 16, 2011 *I got to dance with my daughter and help her chase fireflies so I win….