[Geowanking] Software Standards - The Ugly Truth

[Anselm Hook]

One question that I've never been able to quite clarify:

  Can GML express multiple instances of geometry?

I would like to express a city building and have multiple instances of that
building at different orientations and positions.

A document describing my imaginary city should preserve high level
abstractions: that the building in it are multiply instanced - rather than
"flattening" out to a series of polygons and vertexes in duplicate.  I want
a succinct transport that models my own human understanding.

It appears that this must be possible insofar as that GML itself appears to
be a kind of framework notation within which one defines specialized
profiles.  CityGML for example may have this capability?

It's not entirely clear.

 - a

On 6/23/07, Sean Gillies <sgillies at frii.com> wrote:
>
> Gregor J. Rothfuss wrote:
> > Landon Blake wrote:
> >
> >> I've written a blog post on the OpenJUMP blog about some of the
> >> problems with software standards.
> >
> > from the post: "I don't want this to be a rant about the OGC and my
> > problems with how they operate. (I'll save that for another post.)"
> >
> > i would like to see that smackdown.
> >
> > where is the WHATWG of OGC? an outcome similar
> >
> > http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061029-8101.html would be ideal.
>
> Gregor,
>
> The closest thing to the OGC's WHATWG would be the GeoRSS, GeoJSON, and
> Geo-Web-REST lists.
>
> Sean
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