Details
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Type:
Improvement
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Status:
Open
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Priority:
Major
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Resolution: Unresolved
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Affects Version/s: 2.0
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Fix Version/s: None
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Component/s: coverage
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Description
Need to document our API work on Grid Coverage Exchange. Where we have deviated from the specification additional documentation explaining our rationale is required.
What we have done for Grid Coverage Exchange is not an implementation of the current specification. We anticipate a need for changes to the specification as written. Similar concerns were voiced at the last OGC meting in Chicago concerning Grid Coverage. Our work on Catalog has been more to extend it with the addition of a few classes that were suggested but not detailed in the specification.
Issue Links
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GEO-59
Replace current GridCoverage interfaces by ISO 19123
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I guess that this task is about GridCoverageExchange. GridCoverage itself is compliant with OGC Grid Coverages Implementation specification (document 01-004). Only GridCoverageExchange and its dependencies received significant rework. It was the result of an agreement between different implementors (Geotools and Degree) and with an PCI Geomatic engineer that GridCoverageExchange, as specified in 01-004, is insuffisient.
There is a separated concern with GridCoverage: The OGC Grid Coverages Implementation specification is now quite old (2001) and not exactly in line with ISO specification. We should probably use the ISO 19123 specification instead. Unfortunatly, this spec is not public. OGC is considering an adoption of ISO 19123 for OGC Abstraction specification topic #6. But since the adoption is not yet done (at least publicly), there is (as far as I know) no public material we can use right now for ISO 19123 compliance.