Comments on: Keep it simple, stupid! http://www.gisblog.net/news/keep-it-simple-stupid/ Geospatial Information Science - Trends, Tools & Technologies Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:41:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Carsten Keßler http://www.gisblog.net/news/keep-it-simple-stupid/#comment-4807 Carsten Keßler Thu, 05 Oct 2006 10:22:00 +0000 http://www.gisblog.net/news/keep-it-simple-stupid/#comment-4807 I am not so sure whether you can compare those two very different worlds. The APIs of Google, Yahoo etc aim at being usable by everyone who knows a little web-programming, and they build on a fixed dataset. The OGC standards, on the other hand, aim at flexibility. They are designed for a broad range of purposes in which spatial data web services can be useful, especially in the business context. On the other hand, it is nice to have this upward compatibility like between GeoRSS and GML. But I don't think this is possible for the WMS spec, for example, because it is designed completely different than all the JavaScript APIs used to build mash-ups. I am not so sure whether you can compare those two very different worlds. The APIs of Google, Yahoo etc aim at being usable by everyone who knows a little web-programming, and they build on a fixed dataset. The OGC standards, on the other hand, aim at flexibility. They are designed for a broad range of purposes in which spatial data web services can be useful, especially in the business context.

On the other hand, it is nice to have this upward compatibility like between GeoRSS and GML. But I don’t think this is possible for the WMS spec, for example, because it is designed completely different than all the JavaScript APIs used to build mash-ups.

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