opengeospatial / opengeospatial/CoverageJSON

Should PROJJSON be used rather than "text" WKT2 for CRS while awaiting an official JSON encoding from CRS SWG?

Open
#26 6 comments 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

Nobody has claimed this yet.

Priority 2 V1.2
Dominant language
HTML
Stars
15
Forks
8
PR merge metrics
No merged PRs in 30d

Description

In 2DTMS we have taken this approach and include the PROJJSON schema with a note that in the future this may be changed to whichever JSON encoding OGC comes up with per the CRS SWG work item on this topic.

See note in https://docs.opengeospatial.org/DRAFTS/17-083r4.html#tms-json-encoding :

NOTE: This Standard adopts the https://proj.org/specifications/projjson.html encoding, pending a resolution in the CRS group for adopting a possible future JSON encoding for WKT for CRS 2.0

Having part of the content all encoded in a (text WKT2) string makes it more difficult to parse the data and cannot be defined / validated with the overall schema, and would look odd and be difficult to use by people not familiar with WKT2.

Contributor guide

No contributing guide indexed for this repository

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start with the issue's 2DTMS note, the PROJJSON schema, and the linked CRS SWG work item. Compare the current CoverageJSON CRS representation with that precedent and determine whether the specification should adopt PROJJSON or retain text WKT2 pending the CRS decision. Done means the encoding choice and its schema and validation implications are resolved and documented.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
json
Domain
documentation
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

Get new issues in your inbox

A short digest of beginner-friendly GitHub issues.