Ben,
OSGeo and OGC have a complimentary and productive relationship based
upon an MOU between the two organizations.
A great example of the collaboration is at the next FOSS4G run by
OSGeo, OGC will be leading a Climate Change Integration Plugfest
(CCIP). The CCIP will demonstrate standards based interoperability
between geospatial applications based on a Climate Change scenario.
http://www.osgeo.org/news/2009/01/FOSS4G_Integration
http://www.opengeospatial.org/pressroom/pressreleases/951
The GALEON community could interact with OSGeo in many ways here are a
couple of suggestions:
1) participate in the CCIP.
2) identify an open-source project that implements OGC standards,
e.g., WCS, as an OSGeo Project. OSGeo has a process and resources
for community development of open-source geospatial software. There
are several examples of OSGeo projects implementing OGC specifications.
OSGeo projects implementing OGC specifications has been successful in
the past and it may be appropriate in the GALEON context.
Relevant to this is the motion approved at the OGC meeting this
month: "Web Coverage Service Standards Working Group release of
NetCDF extension"
The OGC Members approved release of 09-018 Web Coverage Service (WCS)
extension for CF-netCDF encoding, 1.0 as an OGC Discussion Paper
• This extension of the WCS standard specifies an Information
Community data model with the related encoding that may optionally be
implemented by WCS servers. This extension enables clients to
evaluate, request and use data encoded in CF-netCDF3 format from a WCS
server.
Document 09-018 is posted here:
http://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=32195
Regards,
George
On Apr 13, 2009, at 7:18 PM, Gerry Creager wrote:
I certainly believe the GALEON community would benefit, and that the
FOSS4G community would, as well. I suspect a similar statement can
be made with THREDDS, as well.
The main limitation of GDAL for NetCDF is based in the lack of
requests to extend the support, and the potential to fund said
updates when critiacl mass is finally achieved.
I didn't get to attend the last OGC TC, but I suspect there were
plenty of other FOSS4G advocates there.
I was involved in some of the original FOSS4G organizational efforts
but didn't have the time to allow me to participate to any great
extent. That said, it appears to be a good organization with a lot
of potential to support and nurture projects.
Unidata, however, is also nurturing THREDDS. There's likely be a
little friction, but I strongly suspect that once the initial
"dancing" is done, the benefits to both communities would be visible.
gerry
Roy Mendelssohn wrote:
Hi Ben:
I do not know about FOSS4G per se, but the major sponsor of it
appears to be OSGeo (http://www.osgeo.org/). They are responsible
for Mapserver and Geotools and most importantly GDAL. GDAL is a
nice tool for converting between formats, and supports Netcdf and
OpeNDAP, at least partially (I can't remember if it is limited in
dimensions with netcdf), and provides the conversion for
Mapserver. Conversations about supporting netcdf4 or related
things would strike me as valuable.
-Roy
On Apr 13, 2009, at 2:15 PM, Ben Domenico wrote:
Hi again,
Periodically, I get a suggestion that GALEON and THREDDS would be
good candidates for participation in the Free and Open Source
Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) movement, initiative, project,
community, or whatever it is. I briefly looked into it one time
earlier
http://sites.google.com/site/galeonteam/Home/GALEON%20Phase2%20Main%20Page/Unidata%20OGC%20Interoperability%20Day%20Presentations
but it came up at the recent OGC TC again.
Do any of you have any experience with, thoughts on, or
suggestions regarding whether participating in FOSS4G would indeed
be an effective approach to furthering our particular --
implementation-oriented approach to interoperability?
-- Ben
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