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> Resent-From: [email protected] > From: Raj Singh <[email protected]> > Date: April 19, 2012 2:19:03 PM EDT > To: "[email protected] W3C" <[email protected]>, > [email protected] > Subject: Place names and Points of Interest -- Interest Group starting up > > Over the past few years, a strong community of interest has evolved around > information technologies for developing databases of place names and points > of interest, and also the search interfaces and gazetteers that provide the > query tools for these databases. > > This email is an invitation to join an ad hoc, international group of people > interested in implementing these systems, which I'll just call POIs for > short. I've been involved in the World Wide Web POI Working Group [1], which > approached the topic from an information modeling standpoint, and the > American Assoc. of Geographers workshop, where practitioners shared their > experiences. > > Many of us now feel the time is right to keep the momentum going, and have a > slightly more formal channel for occasional communication. Some of us are > implementing the W3C's draft spec [2], and are looking to partner in my > effort to create a unified, global linked database of all POI information > with the OpenPOIs Repository [3]. And some are just looking for data modeling > commiseration. No matter what your take on the POI world is, please join us. > > If you're interested, please do the following: > > 1) Subscribe to this mailing list: > https://lists.opengeospatial.org/mailman/listinfo/openpois-users > all communications about meeting times and phone numbers will be there > > 2) Join us for monthly teleconferences > These will occur at 3pm UTC / 11am US Eastern on the first Thursday of each > month. > The teleconference line is +1 760 569 7100 passcode: 616269 > > 3) Pass along this email to whomever you think may be interested in joining > the conversation! > > [1] http://www.w3.org/2010/POI/ > [2] http://www.w3.org/2010/POI/documents/Core/latest > [3] http://openpoi.ogcnetwork.net/ > > p.s. my organization, the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), is providing the > mailing list and teleconference line for this group, but this is in no way a > standards effort, or in any way sponsored by OGC, or represents an official > position of OGC. > > ----- > Raj Singh > [email protected] > +1 (617) 642-9372 > The OGC: Making location count. > http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/organization/staff/rsingh > > > > > > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
