OK, not quite, but MetaCarta’s decision to release FeatureServer as open source makes me extremely happy.
Between OpenLayers (an OSGeo incubating project), TileCache, and FeatureServer, MetaCarta deserves a lot of credit for its innovative contributions to the open source geospatial community. I only have two thoughts:
- This is a real boost for a RESTful GeoWeb
- I wonder how long it will be before MetaCarta gets acquired
Taking into consideration tile caching, RESTful interfaces, and growing consensus on RFC-2 for GeoJSON, I see some real momentum for a geospatial web that actually scales.
Update: I missed crschmidt’s post about this. Sounds like a proud parent 
-J
