Re: BP comments

On 12/01/2016 22:18, Bill Roberts wrote:
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> [snip]
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> BP7, Possible approach to implementation
>
> "in some cases, geometry can be 95% of the total data size" - other
> percentages may apply! Maybe - "often the geometric data is a large
> percentage of the total data size"
>
> The choice of how to represent geometry might depend most on the tools
> you expect your audience to have easy access to.  Because different user
> groups have different favourite tools, maybe good advice would be to
> offer as many representations as you can - balancing that against the
> cost of the additional storage or additional processing if converting
> on-the-fly.  I don't think binary formats are inherently less useful
> than text formats in this regard - most people are going to need some
> tooling to process geometry data, whatever choice you make.

+1. And this can be related to the more general BP of making data 
available in different formats - which, in turns, relates to HTTP conneg.

Cheers,

Andrea

Received on Wednesday, 13 January 2016 07:57:56 UTC