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GIS Community Blocks Esri's Geospatial 'Open Standard' REST API

Posted by Unknown on from the ooxml-repeats-itself dept.

Bismillah writes "The developer of ArcGIS, Esri, has dropped its bid to have the GeoServices REST API recognized as an open standard by the Open Geospatial Consortium, after a community backlash against 'providing a vendor with significant market advantage, erring on the creation of a state-sanctioned monopoly.'"

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  1. MSOOXML by Citizen+of+Earth · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ESRI would have gotten away with it if they had just taken the Microsoft path of stuffing the committees with Yes-men. I'm sure the OGC procedures would have been completely defenseless against this and the OGC management would have been overjoyed to collect $10k per temporary yes-man.

  2. Re:Lesson learned by westyvw · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Thats because you don't need all of that. PostGIS --> Geoserver --> Web page. Need a GUI? Qgis. Analysis happens at the database level, just like any other query.