[GeoJSON] [Mass-Market-GEO] Fwd: Paul Ford on GeoJSON

[Howard Butler]

On Nov 8, 2013, at 9:34 AM, Raj Singh <rsingh at opengeospatial.org> wrote:

> Howard, my message was intentionally vague because I don't know what form "formalized usage" of GeoJSON would take. But I certainly didn't mean the only option would be bringing it into an OGC SWG for potential change. I think we broached that topic earlier this year and it wasn't well received. 

Ok. 

I was poorly received because the subject was broached in terms of "GeoJSON is wrong" (true) and "it needs to change".  I think the biggest concern with GeoJSON and OGC would be GeoJSON getting dropped into an opaque SWG to be "fixed" to align with OGC's specifications, and an updated document written and put on OGC's website behind the clickthru, and still be called GeoJSON in the marketplace.


> What I mainly have in mind (and what I feel most OGC members have in mind) in the short term is some OGC document that says GeoJSON is good to use when you're building out a geostandards-based system. No change to the GeoJSON specification or ownership, copyright, stewardship, etc.

Being that GeoJSON is pretty much simple features WKT in JSON clothes, I can see that the membership shouldn't have too much trouble with it as is, SRS warts and all.

Howard
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