OFDS 0.3: Draft release ready for review

[duncandewhurst]

The draft of OFDS version 0.3 is ready for review. The deadline for feedback on the draft release is Friday 26th May.

Providing feedback

OFDS is an open standard; anyone can provide feedback. With respect to the version 0.3 draft release, you should:

• Provide feedback in this discussion thread.
• Only provide feedback on changes in this release. If you have feedback on other areas of the standard, you should create a new discussion thread or issue.
• Indicate whether your feedback is a blocker that must be addressed before release.

Changes

The changes with an impact on data publishers or users are listed below with links to relevant sections of the documentation. For more information on the context and background for each change, see the related issues.

Ref	Change	Documentation	Related issues
1	Use well-known text to represent geometries in the CSV publication format.	CSV publication format reference	#10
2	Add featureType field to GeoJSON publication format.	GeoJSON publication format reference and GeoJSON transformation specification	#207
3	Add guidance on location obfuscation	Decide what data to publish and how to obfuscate location data	#133
4	Update primer to emphasis technical and administrative data	The Open Fibre Data Standard (primer)	#235
5	Replace publisher with an object.	publisher schema reference	#190
6	Add a unit to the Span.fibreLength description.	Span.fibreLength schema reference.	#254

You can view a complete list of changes in this version in the changelog. To see exactly what changed for a changelog entry, open the Files changed tab in the linked pull request.

What next?

We will revise the draft release based on your feedback and share it with the project stakeholders for final review. Once accepted, we will release the new version and update CoVE and Flatten Tool.

[duncandewhurst]

The deadline for feedback has passed so we'll proceed with updating the tools and releasing version 0.3 as the live version of OFDS.