Re: GeoJSON and WKT - RE: [Minutes] 2016-02-09 F2F Day 2

> WKT makes sense in OWL/RDF, but not JSON. So our best practice must draw attention to this

+1. And I think there’s a more general “best practice” comment, which is to be idiomatic in each of the encodings/serialisations that we might target. “Naive” conversions between encodings can generate very odd artefacts.



> On 10 Feb 2016, at 00:25, Simon.Cox@csiro.au wrote:
> 
>>   LarsG: is anyone in close contact with geojson community?
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>>   eparsons: nobody really     ... they are busy at IETF
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>>   phila: we had contact with them before Sapporo    ... we could ask eg if they are ok with WKT
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>>   LarsG: that would solve our problem what to write in the BP
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>>   billroberts: they would probably not want that
> 
> I'm monitoring their conversations, and had a lot of contact about a year ago. 
> No-way they would consider dumping JSON arrays in favour of WKT - and frankly why should they? 
> As pointed out in my mailings yesterday, JSON has arrays as a built-in, so if you are staying in the JSON world, why wouldn't you use them? 
> They also take compatibility with existing GeoJSON in the wild as non-negotiable, and a change like this would be fundamental. 
> 
>> BartvanLeeuwen: let's talk about Bergi's comments
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>>   GeoJSON and JSON-LD conflict in the way they are constructed.
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> The problem emerges if you want to move up into RDF, where arrays (particularly nested arrays) are not natural. 
> WKT makes sense in OWL/RDF, but not JSON. So our best practice must draw attention to this, and caution about attempting lazy conversion from JSON to RDF simply by annotating JSON to create JSON-LD. 
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> From: Phil Archer [mailto:phila@w3.org] 
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> Minutes from today's F2F meeting are, of course, at 
> https://www.w3.org/2016/02/09-sdw-minutes.

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