Re: Introducing CityJSON

Clearly interesting, although the development and standardisation of
encoding would be outside the scope of the group ?
There is clearly a common thread of moving away from pointy brackets (XML),
perhaps there is something the group can do highlight common patterns in
this process.

Ed


On Fri, 2 Feb 2018 at 09:00 Linda van den Brink <l.vandenbrink@geonovum.nl>
wrote:

> Hi group,
>
> At the end of last year I had a discussion with Hugo Ledoux of Delft
> University. He and some others have created a spatial data format called
> CityJSON and are looking for options to further develop and possibly
> standardize this format.
>
> CityJSON is an encoding of CityGML, an open standardised data model and
> exchange format to store digital 3D models of cities and landscapes.
> CityGML is implemented as an application schema for GML3, and it is an
> official international standard of the OGC.
>
> CityJSON is an alternative encoding in, you guessed it, JSON. The aim of
> CityJSON is to offer an alternative to the GML encoding of CityGML, which
> can be verbose and complex. CityJSON aims at being easy-to-use, both for
> reading datasets, and for creating them. It was designed with programmers
> in mind, so that tools and APIs supporting it can be quickly built. It was
> also designed to be compact, and friendly for web and mobile development.
> See http://www.cityjson.org/ for more.
>
> Because the SDWIG is all about web-, programmer-, and mobile development
> friendly standards, I think CityJSON could be of interest to this group.
>
> Any thoughts, opinions?
>
> Linda
>
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