Revamp Plan: v3 and v4 about tilejson-spec HOT 9 OPEN

The 3.0 branch has been created - we'll be using this as the main spot for discussion: #36

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Where should we add suggestions?

I would like to suggest adding a list of available fonts for a glyph url, which currently looks like this:
"glyphs": "https://myserver.com/font-glyphs/{fontstack}/{range}.pbf",

I suggest something similar to what vector_tiles source has - url to the json file with source properties as well as list of vector layers.
Link to glyphs could also link to json with a list of available fonts.

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@tomass This proposal sounds like it's outside the scope of TileJSON. As the name suggests, this spec describes tilesets only and doesn't have a notion of other entities of the GL stack (TileJSON even predates GL).

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@kkaefer should I put this proposal somewhere else or it simply does not have a place (is irrelevant)?

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Glyph URLs don't have a specification. The Mapbox API allows retrieving the fonts available at an end point, but it's not available as a public API and requires a token with the appropriate permissions. If you run your own glyph server, you can implement this API yourself, but there's no convention for it, and Mapbox GL does not ever request it.

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@kkaefer OK, thank you.

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What are the governance plans for the specification?

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What are the governance plans for the specification?

For background, the general requirement for an open standard would be a mix of users and implementers, implementers not dominated by one area of implementation at the cost of others, and not dominated by any one organization. This makes sure that an open spec represents everyone's interests, not just one companies.

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Hey @pnorman, as stated above, myself (@mapsam) and @GretaCB will be the lead authors and deciding committee of these two versions. We are following the CONTRIBUTING.md, which states all questions and suggestions should be opened up as GitHub issues. Thanks for the input so far!

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