[postgis-users] Re: Conformance testing

[Randy George]

Hi,

	I have to agree. It's probably not worth mentioning on the intro
page. I was just curious. 
	It's interesting that the OGC would want to discourage open source
and perhaps indicates where their loyalty lies. PostGIS would appear to be
an ideal fit for implementation of WMS and WFS sites, which has to be
disturbing to some commercial interests but great news for application
developers.

Thanks

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Subject: Re: [postgis-users] Re: Conformance testing

On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 02:09:20PM -0700, Paul Ramsey wrote:
> Randy,
> If you check out the ogc_test_suite you can see that we do in fact pass 
> conformance testing. We have not submitted yet, largely because of a 
> lack of time, but also because even when we passed we would have to pay 
> a royalty to be allowed to say that we did.
> Paul

Given the quality of OGC standard specifications paying them
to claim conformancy really sounds as a joke!
Also, it takes money to join the standardization effort...
Is this a sane way of defining standards in your opinion ?

--strk;

> 
> 
> Randy George wrote:
> 
> >Hi,
> >
> > 
> >
> >            I've noticed this on the PostGIS intro page:
> >
> > 
> >
> >"PostGIS follows the OpenGIS <http://www.opengis.org> "Simple Features 
> >Specification for SQL <http://www.opengis.org/docs/99-049.pdf>" and will 
> >be submitted for conformance testing at version 1.0."
> >
> > 
> >
> >            What is the status on this?
> >
> > 
> >
> >Thanks
> >
> >
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