Recommended Mime Type

[aaraney]

After a small amount of digging, the only recommended mime type ive come across is to use application/octet-stream (see tweet chain) dating back to 2020. Is this still the recommend mime type or has there been movement to register an official mime type with OGC and IANA?

[bjornharrtell]

Any updates on this @ogcscotts ?

[heidivanparys]

I'm also interested in an answer to this. @ogcscotts Would OGC register FlatGeobuf if/when it becomes a community standard?

[bjornharrtell]

@ogcscotts I can't see that anything has happened after https://www.ogc.org/requests/public-comment-requested-justification-document-for-flatgeobuf-as-an-ogc-community-standard/ was closed. Are we again stuck in some slow grinding wheels process? :)

[ogcscotts]

@bjornharrtell sorry for the radio silence. We actually will be getting the vote started for this effort this month. We had another Community Standard effort stuck that needed to be clarified before this one could start. That finished on Sunday. Expect 6 weeks for the vote to complete and then we can jump quickly to the next step.

[ogcscotts]

@bjornharrtell the slow grinding process is unstuck and the vote to approve the work item is now underway. We had a huge queue of votes, but all should proceed on a decent timeline now.

[bjornharrtell]

@ogcscotts that's nice to read! Too bad it can be such a grinding process but I suppose in a way it's good - no sense in making standards for things that are not in for the long game but it does look like flatgeobuf will be sticking around (against all odds?) :)