REST and Geospatial

David Smith, who has generally been a proponent of SOA and Web Services on his blog, considers REST:

Certainly the geospatial community will need to sit up and take note of where this leads... Having written my own WFS and WMS services and clients from scratch, though I am still no Web Services guru, I still had to wonder about the wisdom of the approaches being used in the whole paradigm.

See my web category for more about REST and geospatial.