Ron,
looks like we "wildly agree" (nice term I learnt recently): in a
GetCoverage response there is the coverage payload + metadata. I do like
the idea of having a canonical + complete metadata set in XML (ok, GML)
I also have advocated that, in case the server erroneously puts
divergent metadata into format header and XML, the XML data prevail.
Quite some folks alternatively want to have a "stripped" response
without XML and MIME encapsulation (or whatever), though. That's where
we have to live with incomplete metadata then - but IMHO this is a
user's informed decision then. Va bene.
Ron Lake wrote:
Peter:
There is no conflict between TIFF and GML -- just some of the TIFF (if
you used GeoTiff) would be redundantly encoded in GML. Very few GML
coverages would use XML To carry the "pixel" values -- so there is no
problem with Tiff, JPG, JP2, etc.
Ron
