[GeoJSON] Future plans for GeoJSON

[Stefan Drees]

On 26.04.13 20:57, Howard Butler wrote:
>
> On Apr 26, 2013, at 1:28 PM, Martin Daly <Martin.Daly at cadcorp.com> wrote:
>> I'd be up for helping with an RFC.

that's great news! So I spend some time in my editor mode ...


> SRSJSON RFC, or GeoJSON IETF RFC?  The former has some interest for
> me as well, especially if we nuke crs from GeoJSON as part of the
> IETF submission.

@Howard: Is SRSJSON the suggestion for a new name (to accomodate for the 
more to the point focus after removing the CRS Object from the current 
GeoJSON spec)? As I am new "here" that's at least what I understand from 
the above paragraph. Please explain/advice, that would be very nice.

I have produced a first rough draft of a submittable 
RFC-GeoJSON-minus-CRS-Object+CRS-ref-plus-hopefully-only-good-editorial-changes 
in a small github repo to help me follow the discussions here on the 
list and to foster the submission process.

Draft-Draft-Submission-Candidate:
https://raw.github.com/sdrees/geojson/master/draft-sdrees-geojson-format-spec-01.txt

Repo:
https://github.com/sdrees/geojson

Hope to not step on anyone's toes with providing a first draft but ...
I just could not resist.

What do you think?

In case you wonder where I started: I downloaded 
http://geojson.org/geojson-spec.txt which seemed to be the most 
"source-like" format of version 1.0 and then refactored to funnel it 
into the currently most up to date looking toolchain (and so that we can 
still easily revert it to mediawiki syntax for showing on geojson.org 
etc. I chose to not use XML as source, but a tool to generate the 
intermediate xml from).


PS: When I make changes, I edit the template.xml, middle.mkd and 
back.mkd files, then pandoc2rfc together with xsltproc and xml2rfc do 
the funny dance to walk from text to well submittable text ;-) the 
pre-checks are performed with the idnits tool.

PPS: To shield us all against trolls, I created a LICENS.txt file which 
mainly points out where these drafts are derived from and copied the 
license head from the base document into it.

All the best,
Stefan.