JSON schema for OWS context JSON

Copyright © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium. 53 Figure 2: IDE Rioja using GitHub to provide geospatial information in GeoJSON Could we make a standard mechanism of providing metadata about a set of links discoverable in the web? In fact, this is one of the original use cases considered in OWS Context. Indeed, OWS Context can provide a minimum set of metadata, and offer a link to a set of resources. In addition, each OWS Context resource can also link to a geospatial metadata description e.g. a full ISO19115 description, to a schema, and to a web service to get the data in other formats or to add geospatial filtering capability. In other words, OWS context can be used as the single entry point to a list of geospatial resources. In principle, we could use OWS context to expose and describe a list of GeoJSON files. Unfortunately, OWS context does not define any extension for GeoJSON linking or embedding. Even we could mimic other extensions to do the same it could be useful that OWS Context provides a specific extension for GeoJSON. Recommendation 19: Create an extension of OWS Context JSON for illustrating how to reference GeoJSON data both embedded or linked. Target: CR to OWS Context.SWG

8.2.2 Current mechanims in OWS Context.

Currently, OWS Context is only available in OWS Atom encoding. Very soon, the OWS Context SWG will release a GeoJSON encoding. What is the best way to expose OWS Context in the web? Atom-XML seemed a good alternative a few years ago but today, there are reasons to be concerned. There are some evidences that the main search engine in the web is removing RSS support. Recently, Google removed support to GeoRSSAtom in Google maps. The new version of Google maps does not support Atom anymore even though it is still possible to request using the old version. How long Google will maintain support to the old version is uncertain. Google also removed an app called Google Reader that was a web based generic RSS reader. It is difficult to predict if this is also going to impact the Google search engine but there are reason to suspect that RSS is no longer of interest for Google.