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Incubating

Incubating Specs

This folder holds ad-hoc specifications that are being formalized but are not yet stable enough to be normative in specs/portolan/. They range from requirements whose exact encoding is still settling to whole areas (like point clouds) that are waiting on a reference implementation.

Content here is not part of the conformance surface for the current Portolan version. When a topic stabilizes, it graduates into core.md or formats.md and its incubating doc is removed. Debate happens in GitHub issues and PRs.

Doc Status
raster-styling.md Open — how raster styles are expressed (#41)
point-cloud.md Deferred — awaiting a COPC reference implementation
geotiff-stats-headers.md Encoding detail for the (normative) COG statistics requirement
stac-geoparquet.md Partly graduated — raster item mirrors are normative; STAC-GeoParquet mirrors of collections still open (#44)