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Ben, I planned to attend the OGC TC meeting in Spain; I would be very pleased to contribute to the discussion. Indeed, to discuss about feature, coverage and O&M views of scientific data is an important subject. I tend to agree with Andrew on the possibility to revamp the arguments started at the Interop Day in Boulder. I guess the workshop presentations are still available on the GALEON Web site. Another place where many interested parties would be collocated is EGU. --Stefano
I think it's a good time to have this discussion. Just to put my stake in the sand - I think all these protocols are important and have their place in different scenarios. The key (as always) is the underlying information model - I tried to make this argument in a presentation at the Interop Day in Boulder a while back. For CSML, conformance with O&M has always been of fundamental importance - the CSML feature types are specialisations of the O&M Sampling Features. I've also argued in the past for a simple pattern in the case of sampling features that makes it all fall into place for the majority of our kind of data - for Sampling Features, the Observation result is a coverage. The different protocols are suited to serving up different parts of the information model. Look forward to the discussion in Spain! Regards, Andrew
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