[GeoJSON] New initiative following geojson's success looking for suggestions

Nemesis nemesis at ninux.org
Sat Jan 10 09:04:39 PST 2015


Hi again everybody,

I'm really sorry to bother you again, but we would have really loved to
hear back from you.

Even offlist if you don't want to bother all the subscribers.

If anyone can help us, it will be very useful for many people.

Thank you again.
Federico


On 11/27/2014 11:05 AM, Nemesis wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> first of all, I want to thank you for putting effort in creating this
> awsome open standard.
>
> I started working with it justat the beginning of 2013, and soon after
> I understood why this is amazing: it could make GIS libraries written
> in completely different languages interoperable, making it easy to
> develop and share bits of reusable code, it created an ecosystemand
> then finally even github implemented it so that geojson files would be
> displayed as maps.
>
> Working a lot inthe  networking field, I wondered: why there's no
> standard JSON format to represent commonnetworking taskslike
> configuration of devices, routing protocols topologies, monitoring
> data? A JSON for networks like GeoJSON is for GIS.
> Developing web apps that deal with networks is terribly painful. Why
> it has to be like that?
>
> So I started talking about this at the Google Summer of Code
> Reunion2014 in San Jose with some other peers and friends, we liked
> the idea and we started working via mailing list and then I finally
> tried to put a first draft on this repo:
> https://github.com/interop-dev/json-for-networks
>
> I'm here to ask you a few questions, hoping that you can share with us
> some of your experience.
>
>   * how much time passed between the first idea and the first
>     implementation?
>   * how much time passed between the finalization of the spec and the RFC?
>   * were there conflicts while defining the spec? If yes, do you have
>     any suggestion for us in case it happens for us too?
>   * how can we encourage others to implement the new format in their
>     projects? How did you achieve this?
>   * are there mistakes you did that you can share with us? Things to
>     avoid at all costs?
>   * are there suggestions you want to share with us?
>
> Thank you very much for your attention.
> Best regards
> Federico Capoano

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