Re: BP comments

Hi, Jeremy.

Regarding ACTION-48 discussed yesterday [1]:

In the mail below, Bill made a comment about "making available 
geometries in multiple formats" [2,3].

Was this added to the GH issue tracker? I've checked, but I was not able 
to find it.

Thanks!

Andrea

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[1]https://www.w3.org/2016/01/27-sdw-minutes
[2]https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-sdw-wg/2016Jan/0040.html
[3]https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-sdw-wg/2016Jan/0043.html


On 14/01/2016 16:27, Jeremy Tandy wrote:
> Bill & Andrea - thanks for your comments; now processed. Some points
> below ...
>
> [snip]
>
>     On 12/01/2016 22:18, Bill Roberts wrote:
>      >
>      > [snip]
>      >
>      > 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
>

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Received on Thursday, 28 January 2016 10:01:58 UTC