Author: mattmann
Date: Sun Mar 31 01:02:13 2013
New Revision: 1462868
URL: http://svn.apache.org/r1462868
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+The talk will cover the history, motivation, goals, current status and
+future work for the Apache Spatial Information System (SIS) project. SIS
+is a top level project at the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the
+world's largest open source foundation and the home to over 3500
+contributors, 400 members, and 100+ of the most downloaded projects in the
+world including Apache HTTPD, Apache Hadoop, Apache Lucene/Solr, Apache
+Tika and other projects.
+
+The goals of Apache SIS are to provide an ALv2 licensed Java toolkit and
+API that developers can leverage to build spatial information systems.
+This includes support for different coordinate reference systems; support
+for spatial querying; support for geometry and transformations and data
+representation of spatial data. SIS currently is aiming to be a reference
+implementation of the OGC Geo API 3.x standard.
+
+The project has undergone successful incubation at the ASF, having made 2
+releases, and we are working towards a 0.3 release that includes support
+for ISO-19115 metadata, ISO-19103 Conceptual schema language, and working
+towards ISO-19111 spatial referencing.
+
+SIS is also in the midst of a large contribution and assimilation of the
+GeoTK project, bringing it incrementally and in a community oriented
+fashion to the ASF. This is being led by Martin Desruisseaux.
