Subject: Re: [Geopriv] Geoshapes on OGC website

From: "Carl Reed OGC Account" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 09:55:52 -0700

One more request.

If anyone finds any errors or has any issues, please let me know. We have a 
rapid technical edit process in the OGC for correcting errors, especially in 
schemas!

Thanks

Carl

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Carl Reed OGC Account" <[email-masked]>
To: "Andrew Newton" <[email-masked]>; "Winterbottom, James" 
<[email-masked]>
Cc: <[email-masked]>; "ECRIT" <[email-masked]>
Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 8:31 AM
Subject: Re: [Geopriv] Geoshapes on OGC website

> This document is totally IPR unencumbered. So it can be freely used with 
> no worries about patents etc. As to why the OGC has this best practices 
> document, well the folks who wrote it did so years ago before there were 
> really any decent binary encoding schemes for XML. And there was a need to 
> "compress" GML payloads. FYI, this particular XML binary encoding approach 
> is being used by the aeronautical industry for encoding XML payloads for 
> transmission to flight navigation systems in commercial airliners (new 
> Airbus planes for example).
>
> The W3C now has a group looking at a general approach for binary XML but 
> not sure how far they have gotten. There is a draft.
>
> Cheers
>
> Carl
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Andrew Newton" <[email-masked]>
> To: "Winterbottom, James" <[email-masked]>
> Cc: <[email-masked]>; "ECRIT" <[email-masked]>
> Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 6:42 PM
> Subject: Re: [Geopriv] Geoshapes on OGC website
>
>
>> Completely OT, but they also have a Binary XML spec (BXML).   I just 
>> scanned it, and it looks very interesting.  My brief $0.02:  1) I  would 
>> probably do a lot more than just skim this spec if I knew  exactly which 
>> parts were patent encumbered and by whom.  2) One of my  first questions 
>> was "Why not WBXML?", and there was a section that  actually talked to 
>> that point and that I found very agreeable.  3)  The compromise on the 
>> endianness thing gives the worst of both  cases.  There is a lot, I mean 
>> a lot, of code out there that knows  and does the right thing with 
>> network byte order.  Plus, there are  far, far more cell phones than 
>> desktop computers, and they don't run  x86.
>>
>> -andy
>>
>> On Jan 25, 2007, at 8:24 PM, Winterbottom, James wrote:
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> At long last you can access the official Geoshapes document from  the 
>>> OGC
>>> website. Thanks to Martin Thomson and Carl Reed for making this  happen.
>>>
>>> http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/bp#06-142
>>>
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> James
>>>
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