I had caught Howard Butler’s post on his take about OGC and GeoRSS and now I see Chris Tweedie and Allan Doyle responded. One comment by Allan that caught my eye:
“But when it comes down to which organization I support directly by my efforts, it matters a lot. Right now, the first compellingly neutral organization that jumps to mind is the Open Source Geospatial Foundation. I wonder if the time is right to have the Open Source Geospatial Foundation become the sponsor/host/supporter of GeoRSS?”
I’ll save my rant about OGC for another day (I’m in too good of a mood right now to get worked up over that), but it is interesting to see how quickly an open standard can become closed right before your eyes if people aren’t vigilant.
Also it is important to remember that much discussion goes on via email lists in the geospatial community. Subscribing to these lists is an great way to keep up on news that takes days or weeks to get out onto the blogs.
One Comment
The only reason he’s avoiding commenting on OGC is the chance of upsetting the 3 guys that care about OGC.
3 Trackbacks
[...] Today I saw James Fee talking about post about GeoRSS. I thought it will be interesting to try to mix GeoRSS and RDF/A. While GeoRSS is designed for RSS feeds, I think it can also be used to annotate regular HTML contents. [...]
Friday roundup: Blogger meetup at Where 2.0, GeoRSS scuffle, “paid placemarks”
Are you a blogger attending Where 2.0? Here is your meetup, time and place TBA, put into motion by Fantom Planet. This is a wonderful overlay, posted to Google Earth Hacks: How the continents looked during the Late Cretaceous period,…
[...] James Fee is in too good a mood to comment on the OGC, and suggests subscribing to mailing lists to keep track of what is going on. [...]