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Hi all, Can I come at this from a slightly different angle - what is considered *out* of scope for WCS? It is often said that a successful business must be very clear about what it *doesn't* do (I saw it in a Dilbert cartoon so it must be true), and the same is surely true for standards. Back in the early days, WCS only dealt with 2-D rasters, reflecting its origins in satellite imagery. Although this was limiting (and highly unsuitable for some communities), it was at least implementable. Independently-developed clients and servers could interoperate. However, now it seems that nothing is out of scope for WCS. Furthermore, the ISO19123 Coverage model itself is also extremely general and it seems that pretty much any data can now be described as a Coverage, including what we might once have described as a "feature" (non-raster data). This considerably blurs the distinction between WCS, WFS and SOS. So, can people help me to understand what kinds of data would *not* be considered suitable for a WCS approach? Cheers, Jon -- Dr Jon Blower Technical Director, Reading e-Science Centre Environmental Systems Science Centre University of Reading Harry Pitt Building, 3 Earley Gate Reading RG6 6AL. UK Tel: +44 (0)118 378 5213 Fax: +44 (0)118 378 6413 j.d.blower@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.nerc-essc.ac.uk/People/Staff/Blower_J.htm
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