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Looks like Company Wakeboards has officially put to rest all pending rumors. Justin chimed in on a Wakeworld thread that Shawn Watson will not be an owner or rider for the new up and coming company.

For now Tino will be riding the so called “Watson Prototype” wakeboard alone. A new rumor has come about that another pro rider might be jumping ship to ride for the Company within the next couple weeks but as of now we are not sure who it might be.

Just to clear the air.
-Shawn Watson is not riding for us.
-We are independently owned and operated.
-The AC in our office is not working right now.
Please email info@companywake.com for more details and questions regarding this information, and any other information you would like to know about us.
Thanks!
Co Crew

After thinking about the previous rant I made on the OGC for the past couple days, I’ve realized that the OGC is not actually the problem. Instead, my problem was with the attitude that has built up around the OGC machine — but that’s not really OGC’s fault in any direct way. I’ll post more on this later, but if I don’t post now, I’ll forget, so: Please remind me, after FOSS4G, to talk about what was wrong with my previous post, and what I think now, if I forget.

Also, there were a couple different technical mistakes in my previous email: I called the TC the “Tech Plenary”, which is not what I meant, and there are other things like that. I’ll clear up more afterwards, and I know a couple people I owe emails and other things to. So, at some point in the relatively near future, I’ll sit down and be rational instead of simply being pissy and reactive.

Though I maintain that talking about REST is meta-wankery, for the most part

Grabbed Sean Gillies yesterday and talked to him about GeoJSON. We came to a conclusion that his argument against type, although not ill-reasoned, was simply going to require a couple extra edits to the spec that might possibly limit its use slightly more. So, we decided to skip duck typing, use the type attribute everywhere, etc. I don’t know if Sean was really *convinced*, but he was willing to let me put his name back on the spec

Another GeoJSON community member (Martin Daly) pointed out that abusing EPSG (By saying “Use EPSG, but ignore the coordinate order”) is probably the wrong way to go about things. After talking to Raj, I got some feedback, and posted about an alternative (using OGC URNs) to the list.

So, if you have comments on GeoJSON, please share them now.

OpenLayers talk bursting at the seams. Went well, though Tim rushed it at the end so there weren’t as many questions asked as I had hoped there would be. I’m thinking that the ordering process from votes wasn’t really informative enough for making room decisions — some of them seemed to be in the wrong space for the crowd, though of course you can’t tell that ahead of time. Perhaps this just means that people who voted were biased away from things like OpenLayers and FeatureServer relative to the majority of the population… but then again, TileCache went in the Big Hall, and that’s only really usable with OpenLayers as far as I know…

Anyway, we also had the pre-sprint BOF, where we talked through some ideas on what we want to hack. It seems like improved documentation is definitely on the list, as well as context and animated panning/zooming. We’ll see what gets done, but it’s exciting times.

Speaking of exciting times: Camptocamp’s Cartoweb got rave reviews from everyone I talked to. (And, What is it based on on the client side but OpenLayers?) It seems like a really new thing to most people: “Wait, I can do real GIS-y things in a browser? Why did no one tell me this before?”

I don’t know about everyone else, but I was hugely impressed by seeing OpenLayers doing things that looked to me like real work: attribute search, quantile based styling, etc. Things that every GIS application seems to have — and now you can get them for OpenLayers too. Cool stuff.