API ad hoc

Local Time: 09/15/2015 : 05:15 PM - 07:00 PM [BST - British Summer Time (UTC/GMT +1 hour)] 

EDT Time: 09/15/2015 : 12:15 PM - 02:00 PM [ - US/Eastern] 
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Room: De La Beche 

Remote Participation: hosted by De Lathouwer, Bart

API ad hoc Agenda


 

  1. open discussion on previous meetings
    • API’s and the OGC (OGC defines interfaces that enable interoperability of geospatial applications and API’s are a popular method to define interfaces for accessing spatial data in a web browser)
    • Agreement on terms, What is an API and what sort of API's do we know ()
      • REST, Web API’s
      • WebIDL, OGC GeoAPI, ...
      • API, SDK, Libraries (Library API’s), toolkits, ...
    • OGC geospatial API’s are implementation independant
      • use of W3C IDL, other
      • what about API that are not implementation independent? (OpenLayers, CMAPI, Leaflet, …)
    • Agreement on OGC specifying reusable constructs for RESTful Web APIs 
      • Use of small bits of OGC for web api providers (WKT, WMTS, CQL/Filter, geoPackage, …) 
      • API's as defining key geospatial constructs and functionality
      • brokering/transformations between the various API’s and representations
    • Moving forward
      • convergence of Library APIs?