Re: BP 11 - 'convenience APIs'

Thanks Clemens -

If you would like we could swap discussion of BPs 11, 12 and 13 into the
"main" part of this afternoon's agenda in place of the discussion about
sitemaps; Lars has offered regrets so we wouldn't get his input on that
discussion.

Jeremy

On Wed, 1 Mar 2017 at 10:18 Clemens Portele <
portele@interactive-instruments.de> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> in the last BP telecon (https://www.w3.org/2017/02/15-sdwbp-minutes) I
> took the action to work on the best practice related to the convenience
> APIs to access spatial data (BP 11). As we have our next BP call today, I
> want to provide an update on the status.
>
> An updated version is now in this pull request (many thanks to Jeremy for
> his input): https://github.com/w3c/sdw/pull/587. Only the introduction to
> section 12.6 and BP 11 have been changed (plus the bibliography).
>
> The main change has been to consolidate this BP with the changes that
> occurred in DWBP before it was finalised and focus on the specific aspects
> that relate to spatial data and SDIs.
>
> The current WD has some additional ideas for examples, but I have removed
> them when they were using generalized APIs, not specific to spatial data or
> unclear to me. If anyone has text for more examples, this would be good.
>
> Bart: You should check, if your input is represented properly or if you
> would like to propose any amendments.
>
> I think that we could remove BPs 12 and 13 as they are essentially covered
> by the DWBP best practices and BP 11 (maybe some of the current text in the
> two BPs could be moved to BP 11), but it would be good to have examples
> that relate to these BPs in BP 11.
>
> Best regards,
> Clemens
>
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