Hello Greg, welcome!
Le 07/04/14 14:21, Greg Reddin a écrit :
> * I'm very involved in city planning, particularly with efforts to
> improve alternative transportation options, such as bicycling. I could
> see SIS being very useful to provide location-based analytical data
> such as barriers, and places where cycling infrastructure could be
> very beneficial.
Would you be interested in looking at the CityGML standard [1], and
eventually start an implementation of it? Note that I'm not familiar
myself with CityGML, so I do not know if it would be a reasonable plan.
I think that your interest is also related to OGC "Moving Features"
working group, which has a use case similar to the above transportation
problems. I don't think that there is a public draft of Moving Feature
yet. But since we started to design the SIS Features API recently, I
would like to ensure that it is compatible with Moving Features. So
advise from someone who looked at the subject would be nice.
> * I'm very fascinated with the weather and like to follow severe
> weather as it occurs. I could see SIS being useful to track the
> accuracy of weather forecast models as well as to help in ongoing
> short-term forecasting and historical analysis of weather trends.
This is also a SIS goal. If you could keep an eye on the Meteorology &
Oceanography Discussion Working Group [2], that would be very
appreciated. The group is expressing what they needs for supporting
weather data, and I would like to make sure that SIS meet their needs.
They were recent discussions at OGC about uncertainties in data, which
may be related to your interest in accuracy? If so, a starting point
would be to implement the uncertainties convention in "sis-netcdf"
module, if the standard is mature. The NetCDF format is quite used by
the meteorological and oceanographical communities.
Regards,
Martin
[1] http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/citygml
[2] http://external.opengis.org/twiki_public/MetOceanDWG/
