Comments on Paul Ramsey: KML @ OGC

Interestingly enough, the process finished today. ...

2008-04-14T13:56:52.405-07:00

Interestingly enough, the process finished today. So "a little less than a year" actually means 363 days.

I tend not to get into the nuts and bolts of the e...

2007-05-04T05:57:58.527-07:00

I tend not to get into the nuts and bolts of the encodings but rather keep my head up to see what it all will mean.

If you haven't seen the EPCI 2015 video I highly recommend it, http://epic.makingithappen.co.uk/ . As far as what this may all mean to the geo-community going forward it does paint a compelling portrait. Agree with it or not what we see with KML and the comments on convergence of encoding takes us in the movies direction.

I don't know Ron. KML holds content (shapes and i...

2007-04-18T19:23:31.749-07:00

I don't know Ron. KML holds content (shapes and information about those shapes) and it has rules for coloring those shapes. Call me simplistic, but if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck...

I, for one, welcome our new Gooey masters.

I think this note is a little misleading. If you ...

2007-04-18T16:09:32.331-07:00

I think this note is a little misleading. If you look at KML you will realize that it is a visualization language and NOT a content or styling language, and does not really have these things rolled together as you suggest.

KML's approach to content representation is to just carry the content encoded elsewhere. The Schema tag introduced earlier in KML has been deprecated and superseded in KML 2.1 by the Metadata tag. The Metadata tag simply allows any content to be included.

Styling at OGC means to apply rules to geographic content to generate a presentation. There is no such functionality in KML.

This is in no way a deprecation of KML - far from it - but KML is not at all inconsistent with existing OGC specifications. Harmonization at the OGC will thus be fairly straightforward process both for Google and for the other OGC members.