2022 01 19

Plan agreed and presented to the OGC Technical committee meeting 8 dec 2021

Objectives:

• Convergence with ISO 19123-1 and ISO19123-2 CIS would be a goal
• Continued community support and performance would also be a goal (download useful data to a browser)

Tasks:

• Respond to vote comments (Started)
• Adopt OGC Standards Document structure for Specification (DONE) see OGC21-069 in Pending folder
• Minor, informative improvements to specification as originally specified at https://covjson.org/ :
  • Add text to explain relation to ISO standard
  • Add some top level, Dublin Core-like, metadata
  • Produce a full JSON Schema (In Progress)
  • Tighten specification of support for WKT for CRSs
  • Alt-Range is not well understood or used, consider removal
• Adopt CoverageJSON as OGC Community Standard (Target 2022-03)
• Produce detailed CoverageJSON, CIS JSON, GeoTIFF, and CF-NetCDF3 comparison document via WCS SWG
  • Keen volunteers identified!
  • Text in GitHub (Started)
• Request and propose further improvements to CoverageJSON specification:
  • Support for multiple time axes
  • Other backward compatible improvements (Version 1.x)
  • Support for JSON-LD V1.1 (not clear if backward compatible)
  • Support binary nD arrays of data (probably not needed because gZip very effective)
• Identify and plan V2.x