[Xastir-Dev] proposed method of doing canoncial shapefile DBF attributes support

[Gerry Creager N5JXS]

Yes, but my interest in making it OGC compliant is that it would open us 
up to (or point us toward) even more interoperability with various 
vendors' maps and formats.  Since this is a redesign, it made some sense 
to me to see if we could move toward a standards-compliant model that 
allows this interoperability...

I could be wrong (the coffee titre isn't too good so far...)

73, gerry

Alan Crosswell wrote:
> Isn't what I'm describing actually meta-metadata?  We are presented with 
> metadata from the source of the maps and have to live with that.  My 
> data is just to translate that data to what used internally by xastir.
> /a
> 
> Curt Mills, WE7U wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, Gerry Creager (N5JXS) wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Woohoo!  Metadata!  In a consistent fashion!
>>
>>
>>
>> Look out, you woke up Gerry...
>>
>>
>>
>>> There are standards we can tap for metadata, including GML instead of 
>>> awk syntax, which are reasonably mature and don't require defining 
>>> our own.
>>>
>>> If there's interest, I can get the OGC GML references and making them 
>>> available; they're on the OpenGIS.org site, too.
>>>
>>> One thing I'd love to see is Xastir-2 OGC compliant for 
>>> Location-Based Services, among other areas.
>>
>>
>>
>> I'm suspect Gerry knows a great deal more about this than I do, but
>> why not use XML instead?  Is GML some subset of XML?
>>
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