[Freegis-list] free software vs. free services

[Frank Warmerdam]

Hugo Ahlenius wrote:

> OK,
> 
> There are quite a lot of announcements on free software on this list, but
> next to none on free services...
> 
> What things are there out there? I would be curious if there are
> client/server implementations of for example GMT.
> 
> I guess there are OGC standards for this, but a simple CGI service that can
> do coordinate transformation would be kind of cool!

Hugo, 

Do you think there would be significant interest in utilizing such 
services?  There is a high level definition of coordinate transform 
services being developed within OGC, and I have been kicking around
the idea of implementing it using my existing OGC CT API in C++ as a 
web service, and deploying it on Opengis.net.  However, it hasn't been
clear to me that it would be very useful.  

Do you think it would be?  Note the interface to it would be OGC compliant
definitions of coordinates systems. 

Best regards,

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