[OSGeo-Discuss] Outcomes of OGC's 122nd Member Meeting

[Scott Simmons via Discuss]

Dear OSGeo Friends,

OGC just completed its 122nd Member Meeting. While virtual (again), we did 
mimic the structure of our physical meetings to get ready for a return to 
normal meeting styles.

You will find a set of summary slides from our Closing Plenary that can be 
publicly-distributed here:
https://portal.ogc.org/files/?artifact_id=100569 
<https://portal.ogc.org/files/?artifact_id=100569>

If you have any questions, please contact me.

Best Regards,
Scott


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[OSGeo-Discuss] OGC 120th Member Meeting summary slides available

[Scott Simmons via Discuss]

Dear OSGeo Colleagues,

OGC recently held its 120th Member Meeting in association with the Singapore 
Geospatial Festival (the events were virtual). A summary of activities underway 
in OGC from this meeting are available in the slides here:
https://portal.ogc.org/files/?artifact_id=99067 
<https://portal.ogc.org/files/?artifact_id=99067>

Feel free to share these slides. If you have any questions, please do not 
hesitate to ask.

Thanks and Regards,
Scott

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[OSGeo-Discuss] 2021 March OGC Member Meeting summary slides

[Scott Simmons]

Dear OSGeo Colleagues,

Today, the OGC completed its 118th Member Meeting. A set of public slides from 
the Closing Plenary reports is available for download here:
https://portal.ogc.org/files/?artifact_id=97133 
<https://portal.ogc.org/files/?artifact_id=97133>

Warning - the file os over 400 MB.

Please let me know if you have any questions about what we covered this week.

Thanks and Regards,
Scott

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[OSGeo-Discuss] 2020 OGC December Member Meeting Closing Plenary slides available

[Scott Simmons]

Dear OSGeo Colleagues,

Today, OGC completed our December Member Meeting. The consolidated slides from 
our Closing Plenary reporting the activities of the Consortium are available 
here:
https://portal.ogc.org/files/?artifact_id=96142 
<https://portal.ogc.org/files/?artifact_id=96142>

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks and Regards,
Scott

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[OSGeo-Discuss] OGC 2020 Ottawa TC Meeting - summary slides available

[Scott Simmons]

Dear OSGeo Colleagues,

OGC just completed its Technical Committee (TC) meeting in Ottawa, Canada. A 
set of summary slides from our Closing Plenary which highlight the activities 
that occurred over the week are posted here:
https://portal.ogc.org/files/?artifact_id=92552 
<https://portal.ogc.org/files/?artifact_id=92552>

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks and Regards,
Scott

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[OSGeo-Discuss] OGC 2019 Toulouse TC Meeting - summary slides available

[Scott Simmons]

Dear OSGeo Colleagues,

OGC just completed its Technical Committee (TC) meeting in Toulouse, France. A 
set of summary slides from our Closing Plenary which highlight the activities 
that occurred over the week are posted here:
https://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=91407 
<https://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=91407>

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks and Regards,
Scott

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[OSGeo-Discuss] OGC 2019 September Technical Committee Meeting summary

[Scott Simmons]

Dear OSGeo Colleagues,

OGC held its 112th Technical Committee Meeting in Banff, Canada this week. If 
you are interested in what happened over the course of the week, please see the 
consolidated slides from our Closing Plenary available here:
https://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=90305 
<https://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=90305>

These slides are publicly-available and shareable.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.

Thanks and Regards,
Scott

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[OSGeo-Discuss] OGC 2019 June Technical Committee Meeting summary available

[Scott Simmons]

Dear OSGeo Colleagues,

OGC held its 111th Technical Committee Meeting in Leuven, Belgium last week. If 
you are interested in what happened over the course of the week, please see the 
consolidated slides from our Closing Plenary available here:
https://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=84732 
<https://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=84732>

These slides are publicly-available and shareable.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.

Thanks and Regards,
Scott

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Standards] WFS 3.0 and SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog sprint in Colorado

[Scott Simmons]

Hi Stefan,

I can talk to WFS3. We now have a roadmap for all OGC candidate standards under 
development (not fully populated, but those closest to approval and a few 
others are in the roadmap):
http://www.opengeospatial.org/roadmap <http://www.opengeospatial.org/roadmap>

This roadmap will be more formally promoted in the coming weeks once we get it 
fully populated.

WFS3 (now being referred to as OGC API Features) is to be briefed to both ISO / 
TC 211 and OGC in June in advance of approval voting in each organization. No 
guarantees, but the OGC approval is forecast to occur after our June Technical 
Committee Meeting (24-27 June) in Leuven, Belgium. Voting takes about 2 months 
in total.

Best Regards,
Scott

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> On May 3, 2019, at 6:44 AM, Stefan Keller  wrote:
> 
> Hi Chris
> 
> Let me chime in here with two specific question about my understanding
> of WFS3 and of STAC..
> A. When will WFS3 become an OGC standard? Is there a road a map? (I
> know about the London Hackathon mid year)
> B. What is the relationship of STAC with Catalog Service for Web
> (CS-W) and metadata (schema.org) in general?
> 
> :Stefan
> 
> Am Do., 1. März 2018 um 14:33 Uhr schrieb Angelos Tzotsos
> :
>> 
>> Thank you Chris for the information.
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> Angelos
>> 
>> On 03/01/2018 02:17 PM, Chris Holmes wrote:
>>> Just realized I forgot to reply to this, but that's a great idea. I'll be
>>> in Orleans for the OGC meetings, so will be on the same time zone. And
>>> there's definitely some STAC collaborators who will be in Bonn.
>>> 
>>> Note also that we're organizing a remote participation option for next
>>> week. GeoSolutions is going to be working on implementing WFS 3 in
>>> GeoServer and Even Rouault is going to be looking in to GDAL bindings for
>>> WFS 3.0 and STAC. Would be great for others in Europe to work on OSGeo
>>> projects while we're working away in Ft. Collins. Obviously any WFS 3 /
>>> STAC implementation & spec feedback in the next few weeks would be great,
>>> but we're hoping to be able to show lots of diverse progress next week.
>>> 
>>> For more info see
>>> https://medium.com/@cholmes/participate-remotely-in-the-wfs-hackathon-next-week-d11a99eb510b
>>> and please sign up to participate at https://goo.gl/forms/v8hyeJvd2yudYvZS2
>>> 
>>> best regards,
>>> 
>>> Chris
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 8:15 PM, Angelos Tzotsos 
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Thank you Chris for organizing this event and for reaching out to this
>>>> mailing list.
>>>> 
>>>> I feel there is strong interest from our community to participate on the
>>>> development of these new standards, and I know that there is ongoing work
>>>> towards this from some OSGeo members, so I am sure you will see some of us
>>>> in Ft Collins.
>>>> 
>>>> Let's make an OGC/WFS/STAC Catalog session during the Bonn Code Sprint: I
>>>> realized that the Orleans OGC TC meeting is on the same week as the Bonn
>>>> code sprint. Perhaps we could all join a video call session during that
>>>> week?
>>>> 
>>>> Best,
>>>> Angelos
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On 02/13/2018 03:34 AM, Chris Holmes wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hello OSGeo-ers!
>>>> 
>>>> I just wanted to make sure everyone knew about an event [1] I'm helping
>>>> organize, to bring together developers to give feedback on the evolving WFS
>>>> 3.0 specification. It's organized by Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), and
>>>> sponsored by USGS, but the goal is make it different than a typical OGC
>>>> event. Indeed the direct inspiration is the code sprints that OSGeo runs,
>>>> but to center it around a standard and give developers an opportunity to
>>>> actually code against the spec _before_ it becomes an official standard,
>>>> and to have any feedback incorporated.
>>>> 
>>>> I'm not sure if many people have been following the progress of WFS 3.0,
>>>> but it's been made more like how we build open source software, with an
>>>> open repository on github [2], and management of the spec through issues

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Standards] OGC API Hackathon in London June 2019

[Scott Simmons]

Hi Margherita,

We request that remote attendees register as well so that we can distribute the 
GoToMeeting details for their remote participation. Links to more details on 
the hackathin and the registration page are found here:
http://www.opengeospatial.org/pressroom/pressreleases/2981 
<http://www.opengeospatial.org/pressroom/pressreleases/2981>

Best Regards,
Scott

> On Apr 11, 2019, at 2:13 AM, Margherita Di Leo  wrote:
> 
> Hi Scott,
> 
> do remote participants need to register? How?
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 4:11 PM Scott Simmons  <mailto:ssimm...@opengeospatial.org>> wrote:
> Hi Tom,
> 
> We did have really good success with remote participation (even across time 
> zones) in the WFS3 Hackathon in 2018 and we will plan a similar structure for 
> upcoming events. The WFS3 Hackathon was held in North America Mountain time 
> zone and we had a number of developers in Europe working our nights, then 
> coordinating each day for a few hours over a web conference.
> 
> Best Regards,
> Scott
> 
> > On Apr 2, 2019, at 5:26 AM, Tom Kralidis  > <mailto:tomkrali...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Scott: thanks for the info.  Note that there is also opportunity for remote
> > participation, if this can be considered (i.e. Gitter channnel, etc.).
> > 
> > Cheers
> > 
> > ..Tom
> > 
> > On Sun, 31 Mar 2019, Scott Simmons wrote:
> > 
> >> Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2019 23:05:39 -0600
> >> From: Scott Simmons  >> <mailto:ssimm...@opengeospatial.org>>
> >> To: tomkrali...@gmail.com <mailto:tomkrali...@gmail.com>
> >> Cc: Jeff Harrison  >> <mailto:jeffgharris...@gmail.com>>,
> >>OSGeo Discussions  >> <mailto:discuss@lists.osgeo.org>>, standa...@lists.osgeo.org 
> >> <mailto:standa...@lists.osgeo.org>,
> >>"Harrison, Jeffrey G Agc"  >> <mailto:jeffrey.g.harri...@usace.army.mil>>
> >> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Standards] OGC API Hackathon in London June 2019
> >> Jeff,
> >> 
> >> We will be releasing more information in the coming week or so as we 
> >> finalize details for the hackathon.
> >> 
> >> Best Regards,
> >> Scott
> >> 
> >> Scott Simmons
> >> Chief Operations Officer
> >> Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
> >> tel +1 970 682 1922
> >> mob +1 970 214 9467
> >> ssimm...@opengeospatial.org <mailto:ssimm...@opengeospatial.org> 
> >> <mailto:ssimm...@opengeospatial.org <mailto:ssimm...@opengeospatial.org>>
> >> 
> >> The OGC: Making Location Count…
> >> www.opengeospatial.org <http://www.opengeospatial.org/> 
> >> <http://www.opengeospatial.org/ <http://www.opengeospatial.org/>>
> >> 
> >>> On Mar 31, 2019, at 4:43 PM, Tom Kralidis  >>> <mailto:tom.krali...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> >>> 
> >>> Jeff: thanks for the info.  I would imagine that this info will be 
> >>> forthcoming;
> >>> as well, signing up for the event will likely result in updates 
> >>> accordingly.
> >>> 
> >>> ..Tom
> >>> 
> >>> On Sun, Mar 31, 2019 at 4:53 PM Jeff Harrison  >>> <mailto:jeffgharris...@gmail.com> <mailto:jeffgharris...@gmail.com 
> >>> <mailto:jeffgharris...@gmail.com>>> wrote:
> >>>> 
> >>>> Tom,
> >>>> 
> >>>> Thank you.  Looks very interesting.
> >>>> 
> >>>> Is there an agenda for this API Hackathon? My apologies if I've missed 
> >>>> it. If there isn't one that's OK too.
> >>>> 
> >>>> Regards,
> >>>> Jeff
> >>>> 
> >>>> 
> >>>>> On Mar 31, 2019, at 12:41 PM, Tom Kralidis  >>>>> <mailto:tom.krali...@gmail.com> <mailto:tom.krali...@gmail.com 
> >>>>> <mailto:tom.krali...@gmail.com>>> wrote:
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> (sorry for the cross-posting).
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> Hi all: FYI the OGC is having an API Hackathon in London on 20-21
> >>>>> June 2019.  In case you are not aware, the OGC is undertaking 
> >>>>> significant
> >>>>> efforts in the evolution of the next generation of OGC API standards.
> >>>>> This will shape the way clients and servers implement the OGC APIs
> >>>>> of the future in the context of feat

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Standards] OGC API Hackathon in London June 2019

[Scott Simmons]

Hi Tom,

We did have really good success with remote participation (even across time 
zones) in the WFS3 Hackathon in 2018 and we will plan a similar structure for 
upcoming events. The WFS3 Hackathon was held in North America Mountain time 
zone and we had a number of developers in Europe working our nights, then 
coordinating each day for a few hours over a web conference.

Best Regards,
Scott

> On Apr 2, 2019, at 5:26 AM, Tom Kralidis  wrote:
> 
> 
> Scott: thanks for the info.  Note that there is also opportunity for remote
> participation, if this can be considered (i.e. Gitter channnel, etc.).
> 
> Cheers
> 
> ..Tom
> 
> On Sun, 31 Mar 2019, Scott Simmons wrote:
> 
>> Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2019 23:05:39 -0600
>> From: Scott Simmons 
>> To: tomkrali...@gmail.com
>> Cc: Jeff Harrison ,
>>OSGeo Discussions , standa...@lists.osgeo.org,
>>"Harrison, Jeffrey G Agc" 
>> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Standards] OGC API Hackathon in London June 2019
>> Jeff,
>> 
>> We will be releasing more information in the coming week or so as we 
>> finalize details for the hackathon.
>> 
>> Best Regards,
>> Scott
>> 
>> Scott Simmons
>> Chief Operations Officer
>> Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
>> tel +1 970 682 1922
>> mob +1 970 214 9467
>> ssimm...@opengeospatial.org <mailto:ssimm...@opengeospatial.org>
>> 
>> The OGC: Making Location Count…
>> www.opengeospatial.org <http://www.opengeospatial.org/>
>> 
>>> On Mar 31, 2019, at 4:43 PM, Tom Kralidis  wrote:
>>> 
>>> Jeff: thanks for the info.  I would imagine that this info will be 
>>> forthcoming;
>>> as well, signing up for the event will likely result in updates accordingly.
>>> 
>>> ..Tom
>>> 
>>> On Sun, Mar 31, 2019 at 4:53 PM Jeff Harrison >> <mailto:jeffgharris...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Tom,
>>>> 
>>>> Thank you.  Looks very interesting.
>>>> 
>>>> Is there an agenda for this API Hackathon? My apologies if I've missed it. 
>>>> If there isn't one that's OK too.
>>>> 
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Jeff
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> On Mar 31, 2019, at 12:41 PM, Tom Kralidis >>>> <mailto:tom.krali...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> (sorry for the cross-posting).
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hi all: FYI the OGC is having an API Hackathon in London on 20-21
>>>>> June 2019.  In case you are not aware, the OGC is undertaking significant
>>>>> efforts in the evolution of the next generation of OGC API standards.
>>>>> This will shape the way clients and servers implement the OGC APIs
>>>>> of the future in the context of features, maps, coverages, processes,
>>>>> catalogues and more.
>>>>> 
>>>>> If your project implements OGC clients/servers, this event provides
>>>>> a great opportunity to help evolve and define the next generation of
>>>>> these standards along with other developers.
>>>>> 
>>>>> For more information on the OGC API Hackathon, please see [1].
>>>>> 
>>>>> Cheers
>>>>> 
>>>>> ..Tom
>>>>> 
>>>>> [1] http://www.opengeospatial.org/OGCAPI_Hack2019
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Standards] OGC API Hackathon in London June 2019

[Scott Simmons]

Jeff,

We will be releasing more information in the coming week or so as we finalize 
details for the hackathon.

Best Regards,
Scott

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> On Mar 31, 2019, at 4:43 PM, Tom Kralidis  wrote:
> 
> Jeff: thanks for the info.  I would imagine that this info will be 
> forthcoming;
> as well, signing up for the event will likely result in updates accordingly.
> 
> ..Tom
> 
> On Sun, Mar 31, 2019 at 4:53 PM Jeff Harrison  <mailto:jeffgharris...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> Tom,
>> 
>> Thank you.  Looks very interesting.
>> 
>> Is there an agenda for this API Hackathon? My apologies if I've missed it. 
>> If there isn't one that's OK too.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Jeff
>> 
>> 
>>> On Mar 31, 2019, at 12:41 PM, Tom Kralidis >> <mailto:tom.krali...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> (sorry for the cross-posting).
>>> 
>>> Hi all: FYI the OGC is having an API Hackathon in London on 20-21
>>> June 2019.  In case you are not aware, the OGC is undertaking significant
>>> efforts in the evolution of the next generation of OGC API standards.
>>> This will shape the way clients and servers implement the OGC APIs
>>> of the future in the context of features, maps, coverages, processes,
>>> catalogues and more.
>>> 
>>> If your project implements OGC clients/servers, this event provides
>>> a great opportunity to help evolve and define the next generation of
>>> these standards along with other developers.
>>> 
>>> For more information on the OGC API Hackathon, please see [1].
>>> 
>>> Cheers
>>> 
>>> ..Tom
>>> 
>>> [1] http://www.opengeospatial.org/OGCAPI_Hack2019
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[OSGeo-Discuss] OGC 2019 February Technical Committee Meeting summary available

[Scott Simmons]

Dear OSGeo Colleagues,

OGC held its 110th Technical Committee Meeting in Singapore last week. If you 
are interested in what happened over the course of the week, please see the 
consolidated slides from our Closing Plenary available here:
https://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=83210 
<https://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=83210>

These slides are publicly-available and shareable.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.

Thanks and Regards,
Scott

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[OSGeo-Discuss] OGC 2018 Charlotte Technical Committee summary

[Scott Simmons]

Dear OSGeo Community,

OGC held its 109th Technical Committee Meeting last week in Charlotte, NC USA. 
Despite a wintry start and delays in arrival for some attendees, we had a very 
productive week. I have uploaded a public consolidation of the Closing Plenary 
reports and presentations here:
https://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=82389 
<https://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=82389>

Please let me know if you have any questions about this meeting or the slides.

Thanks and Regards,
Scott

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[OSGeo-Discuss] OGC September 2018 Stuttgart TC Meeting - slides available

[Scott Simmons]

Dear OSGeo Community,

OGC held its 108th Technical Committee Meeting last week in Stuttgart, Germany. 
We had excellent attendance and hundreds of valuable discussions. You can find 
a summary in the consolidated slides from our Closing Plenary here:
https://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=81129 
<https://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=81129>

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks,
Scott

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[OSGeo-Discuss] OGC December 2017 TC Meeting summary slides available

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Dear OSGeo Friends,

The OGC held its 105th TC Meeting last week in Palmerston North, New Zealand. 
The meeting was a great success and very well attended. I have posted summary 
slides from our Closing Plenary highlighting the week’s activities here:
https://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=77400 
<https://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=77400>

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[OSGeo-Discuss] OGC September 2017 TC Meeting - Southampton, UK public slides available

[Scott Simmons]

Dear OSGeo Participants,

Please find below a link to the public consolidated slides from the Closing 
Plenary of the above-mentioned meeting. More than 200 people attended in person 
for a packed week of discussions and debate. Please let me know if you have any 
questions.

https://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=75873 
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Thanks and Regards,
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[OSGeo-Discuss] OGC December 2016 TC Meeting summary available

[Scott Simmons]

Dear OSGeo participants,

The OGC just held its 101st Technical Committee Meeting from 4 - 7 December 
2016 in Taichung, Taiwan. A set of summary slides from our Closing Plenary are 
available here:
https://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=72228 
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Please let me know if you have any questions.

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[OSGeo-Discuss] OGC September 2016 Orlando Technical Committee Meeting summary available

[Scott Simmons]

The consolidated public slides from the Closing Plenary of the OGC’s most 
recent Technical Committee Meeting in Orlando, Florida USA are now available 
here:

https://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=71165 
<https://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=71165>

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Best Regards,
Scott

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] CoverageJSON

[Scott Simmons]

Hi All,

As Jon pointed out, this work is being discussed in the joint OGC/W3C Spatial 
Data on the Web Working Group. Also, Jon will be presenting the work formally 
to the OGC membership at our Opening Plenary next month. I encourage interested 
parties to attend in person (Orlando, FL USA) or remotely via GoTo Meeting.

Many OGC standards are now being developed in GitHub and nothing precludes this 
work from evolving in a very public fashion and also moving through the OGC 
process, if desired!

Best Regards,
Scott

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> On Aug 30, 2016, at 3:46 AM, Jon Blower <j.d.blo...@reading.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> Hi Jachym,
>  
> That’s good to know, thanks. We’ve done all our development on GitHub so far 
> and communicated via issues and wikis there. It could be a good idea to move 
> discussions somewhere like OSGeo in future, but for now I’d like to encourage 
> anyone who is interested to join us on GitHub:
>  
> https://github.com/covjson/specification 
> <https://github.com/covjson/specification>
>  
> The “public-facing” website of the project (including links to tools etc) is 
> https://covjson.org <https://covjson.org/>. 
>  
> So I guess you could consider this email the “call for action” to the OSGeo 
> community! ;-)  (We have announced this publicly in other forums, but it’s 
> good to have this opportunity to directly talk to OSGeo – thanks Bruce for 
> drawing me in!)
>  
> Best wishes,
> Jon
>  
> From: Jachym Cepicky <jachym.cepi...@gmail.com>
> Date: Tuesday, 30 August 2016 10:38
> To: Bruce Bannerman <bruce.bannerman.os...@gmail.com>, Jon Blower 
> <sgs02...@reading.ac.uk>
> Cc: OSGeo Discussions <discuss@lists.osgeo.org>, Massimiliano Cannata 
> <massimiliano.cann...@supsi.ch>
> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] CoverageJSON
>  
> Hi, 
>  
> afaik, we as OSGeo, do not have formal procedure regarding standards, we 
> offer some infrastructure (wiki, mailing list, maybe gitlab) and you can just 
> "call for action" - you can then collaborate like any other project. It is 
> very simple and gives you big freedom. That does not exclude you from adopt 
> the standard by more formal organisations (W3C or (I would prefer it more) 
> OGC) which makes sense
>  
> @sevenspatial would say: go public, announce early, wait a little for 
> possible feedback, and either go on or merge with existing project which 
> might be already there, we just do not know about. for this, OSGeo is great 
> sandbox
>  
> J
>  
> út 30. 8. 2016 v 11:31 odesílatel Bruce Bannerman 
> <bruce.bannerman.os...@gmail.com <mailto:bruce.bannerman.os...@gmail.com>> 
> napsal:
>> This is good to see Jon.
>>  
>> @All how can we make this happen within OSGeo?
>>  
>> Bruce
>> 
>> On 30 Aug 2016, at 19:09, Jon Blower <j.d.blo...@reading.ac.uk 
>> <mailto:j.d.blo...@reading.ac.uk>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Dear all,
>>>  
>>> (Second attempt at sending this, I wasn’t subscribed before!)
>>>  
>>> I’m the leader of the project under which CoverageJSON is being developed 
>>> [1]. My colleague Maik Riechert is the main developer of this. Thanks very 
>>> much to Bruce for advertising to this list! I’ll pick up on a few of the 
>>> points in this thread:
>>>  
>>> 1.   Regarding adoption, it’s early days yet, but I’m aware of a few 
>>> applications in development (including our own projects of course, but also 
>>> some external folk). We’re building in library support for a few languages 
>>> (e.g. Javascript, Python) and some tools (e.g. Leaflet and NASA’s Web World 
>>> Wind).
>>> 2.   I think CovJSON can work nicely with O (the coverage can be the 
>>> result of the observation). O could provide the “hooks” on which other 
>>> metadata (e.g. provenance) could be hung.
>>> 3.   Regarding compression: yes, this is going to be important. JSON 
>>> gzips very well on the wire, which helps a lot with transfer speed and our 
>>> tests indicate that it’s typically not very much worse than a compressed 
>>> binary format. We’ve worked successfully with rasters of millions of pixels 
>>> in size.
>>> 4.   We’d be very happy to help people who want to implement support 
>>> for CovJSON in software (e.g. istSOS). Maybe our libraries will be of some 
>>&

[OSGeo-Discuss] OGC 2016 Dublin TC Meeting summary

[Scott Simmons]

Dear All,

The OGC held its 99th Technical Committee Meeting last week in Dublin, Ireland. 
A summary of all votes and motions is located here:
http://www.ogcnetwork.net/node/1985 <http://www.ogcnetwork.net/node/1985>

For those of you who are OGC members, the consolidated slides from the Closing 
Plenary are available on the OGC portal in the Dublin meeting directory.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Best Regards,
Scott

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[OSGeo-Discuss] OGC March 2016 Point Cloud Domain Working Group meeting

[Scott Simmons]

Dear OSGeo Community,

During the recent OGC Technical Committee Meeting in Washington, DC USA, the 
Point Cloud Domain Working Group met for a productive session. All 
presentations from that session have been made public for your review. You may 
find the agenda, presentations, and recording as follows:

Point Cloud DWG Agenda; Stan Tillman: 
https://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=67160 
<https://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=67160>
Point Cloud Survey Results; Stan Tillman: 
https://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=67641 
<https://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=67641>
Advanced Point Cloud Format Standards; Michael Ingram: 
https://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=67558 
<https://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=67558>
Improving Access to Point Cloud Data; Keith Ryden: 
https://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=67560 
<https://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=67560>
Visibility Analysis; Ravi Peters: 
https://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=67599 
<https://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=67599>
Point Cloud DWG recording: 
https://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=67685 
<https://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=67685>

If you have any questions, please reach out to the Chair of the Point Cloud DWG 
(Stan Tillman, copied) or me.

Thanks and Regards,
Scott

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[OSGeo-Discuss] OGC March 2016 Technical Committee Meeting summary

[Scott Simmons]

Dear OSGeo Community,

Please note that a summary of the recent OGC Technical Committee Meeting held 
in Washington, DC USA is available as a consolidated slide set from our Closing 
Plenary. These slides have been approved for public release and are found here:

https://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=67891 
<https://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=67891>

We had a large number of Working Group meetings and excellent attendance from 7 
- 10 March 2016. Please let me know if you have any questions about our 
activities over the week.

Thanks and Regards,
Scott

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Ica-osgeo-labs] Do you remember this?

[Scott Simmons]

All,

The OGC is moving forward in our efforts for Point Cloud standardization. As 
presented at our most recent meeting in Sydney, Australia, the Point Cloud DWG 
will be releasing a survey to the interested community as a whole (not just OGC 
membership) to identify the most pressing requirements for standardization in 
the Point Cloud domain and also to seek interest from parties to participate in 
such standardization activities. Please stay tuned for the survey - we will be 
sure to copy these OSGeo lists once the survey is available.

Of course, all discussion and all work will be performed on a consensus basis 
in accordance to our Principles of Conduct. We will judge our work on its merit 
and not denigrate any pre-existing or submitted efforts.

Thanks and Regards,
Scott


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> On Dec 22, 2015, at 1:59 PM, Suchith Anand <suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk> 
> wrote:
> 
> Hi Cameron,
> 
> I fully agree that everyone should respect the OSGeo code of conduct and be 
> respectful in the way the facts are presented.
> 
> I think OSGeo have done our job of highlighting the importance of standards 
> in LiDAR data formats through our open letter in May 2015. OGC have set up a 
> process and it is ongoing, so i request everyone to be patient. You are 
> right, OSGeo Board is only a few volunteers, representing a large body of 
> volunteers, so we should not overburden them with additional loads. 
> 
> It is now for OGC colleagues to continue to guide the process forward and i 
> request everyone to work together step by step for this. It is important to 
> be patient , listen to all viewpoints and slowly build consensus. I hope all 
> stakeholders will work together in the common objective of Open Standards in 
> LiDAR for the benefit of the wider geo community.
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> Suchith
> 
> 
> 
> From: Cameron Shorter [cameron.shor...@gmail.com 
> <mailto:cameron.shor...@gmail.com>]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2015 8:27 PM
> To: Carl Reed; Suchith Anand
> Cc: discuss@lists.osgeo.org <mailto:discuss@lists.osgeo.org>; 
> ica-osgeo-l...@lists.osgeo.org <mailto:ica-osgeo-l...@lists.osgeo.org>
> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Ica-osgeo-labs] Do you remember this?
> 
> Hi Suchith, Sergio, Micha,
> 
> Thanks Carl for highlighting the importance of mutual respect. OSGeo also has 
> a Code-Of-Conduct [1] with similar sentiment to OGC:
> 
> We strive to ...
> Be careful in the words that we choose.
> Whether we are participating as professionals or volunteers, we value 
> professionalism in all interactions, and take responsibility for our own 
> speech. Be kind to others. Do not insult or put down other participants.
> 
> The content of the text being referenced is pushing the boundaries of our 
> Code of Conduct [1] by making fun of another organisation.
> 
> I suggest that we wish to raise this point with the OGC, then reword, 
> focusing just on the facts, and ideally be respectful in the way the facts 
> are presented.
> 
> Hi Suchith,
> I suggest being careful to not over-promise what OSGeo will do (in this case 
> responding to a letter), unless you are volunteering to do it yourself on 
> behalf of OSGeo. The OSGeo Board is only a few volunteers, representing a 
> large body of volunteers. We can do much, but we do it as volunteers.
> 
> Warm regards, Cameron
> 
> [1] http://www.osgeo.org/code_of_conduct 
> <http://www.osgeo.org/code_of_conduct>
> 
> On 23/12/2015 6:27 am, Carl Reed wrote:
>> All -
>> 
>> The OGC has a formal Principals of Conduct Policy. I wrote and maintained 
>> the policy with the agreement and approval of the OGC membership.
>> 
>> http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/policies/conduct 
>> <http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/policies/conduct>
>> 
>> This policy was initially based on the IETF conduct policy.
>> 
>> Please read sections 3.a and 3.b as they have to do with how OGC members 
>> interact with one another as well as with the broader community.
>> 
>> So before "stirring the pot" on the LiDAR  topic again, consider the Conduct 
>> policy as guidance on consensus building.
>> 
>> Happy Holidays
>> 
>> Carl
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 11:31 AM, Suchith Anand 
>> <suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk <mailto:suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk>> 
>> wrote:
>> Hi Sergio, Micha,
>> 
>&

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Orientation standard

[Scott Simmons]

Hello Henrique,

OGC members have adopted a policy of free and open standards, so a premium 
model does not fit our current mission.

I am going to move this conversation over to an OGC channel so that we can 
further discuss any potential for submission of your idea to our process.

Thanks,
Scott

> On Oct 20, 2015, at 7:41 AM, Munich Orientation Convention 
>  wrote:
> 
>  
> Hello Scott,
>  
> I like your questions. 
>  
> The most important is that the experts agree that r100 is a good and consumer 
> friendly Convention, at least for fast orientation purposes and as an 
> alternative to open squared systems or simply “here”. The specifications for 
> this piece of a polar system could be:
>  
> 1 – Name:
> r100
>  
> 2 - identification letter: 
> “r” as radius, 
> lower case.
>  
> 3 - value: 
> 100, 
> which represents 100 “blocks of houses”, 100 x 100 meters or 100 x 100 yards. 
>  
> 4 - color: 
> red.
>  
> 5 - conversion from lat/lon
> acc. known geodetic algorithms. 
>  
> 6 - definition of urban pole: 
> according list …, 
> actually only on www.volksnav.de/mapplet . 
>  
> The definition of these relevant urban poles is a result of many years of 
> hard work and I claim intellectual property. Here the question could arise: 
> “do you prefer open or  optimal polar systems?”. 
> Does anybody know if the transition point NS/EW for post codes in London (a 
> strange mix polar/squared system ) is a relevant point? Please confirm: it’s 
> not.  
>  
> 
>  
> The proposed specification didn’t come from members but could come active 
> from OGC side. Where there is a will, there is a way: is there the 
> possibility to create a premium standard for premium members? This would 
> surely increase the number of members.
>  
> Henrique
>  
> P. S.:  Openwashing: 
> http://opensource.com/business/14/12/openwashing-more-prevalent 
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Orientation standard

[Scott Simmons]

Thanks, Henrique,

I think that you will have to determine how to divide your concept into a part 
that is valuable to the entire community as a free and open standard and into a 
part that you can preserve to earn revenue. I do not understand what you mean 
by “openwashing,” so please better describe how to standardize the circle.

Best Regards,
Scott
> On Oct 20, 2015, at 3:10 AM, Munich Orientation Convention 
>  wrote:
> 
>  
> Hello Scott,
>  
> my license model is very simple: CASE by CASE. The fees can be zero or 
> symbolical (Burundi) and the merit principle should be valid, therefore not 
> collide with the openmania. 
>  
> Now that OGC is reviewing the own corset, it would a good opportunity to 
> consider a forgotten target group which has no other lobbies than inventors: 
> the consumer. 
>  
> 4 billion people would obviously prefer the division of the horizon into 12 
> instead of 360 directions and prefer station codes www.volksnav.de/TokyoMetro 
>  instead of none. Our brains need 
> information like www.volksnav.de/orientator/index.htm 
>  but lobbies and openmania 
> generate standards like post codes, 360 directions or 
> www.volksnav.de/2directions  . What cost 
> little is worth less, what costs nothing… 
>  
> Would it be possible for OGC to standardize the most of the Convention - e. 
> g. starting with a simple circle www.volksnav.de/r100 
>  - or would this be considered as openwashing?
>  
> Henrique   
> 
>  
>  
>  
>  
>  
>  
> -  I’m not a missionary but an inventor. Inventors develop systems to 
> cover market gaps expecting the proven merit principle.
> -   
> -  Fortunately or not, the market gap “orientation” would be a matter 
> for authorities and require standardization.
> -   
> -  My experience with classical standardization boards is: they 
> aren’t interested on best but on free standards where only they can increase 
> incomes. So they would standardize a system like annex (division of the 
> horizon into 2 directions) just because it’s free and would ignore a proposal 
> which additionally answers the fundamental questions “where am I?” “where is 
> north?” “where is downtown?” even if I ask for a symbolical merit.
> -   
> -  So a question arises: why should someone invest creativity, time 
> and money on a non-merit basis?
> -   
> -  What costs little is worth less, what costs nothing… looks like 
> post codes, maps of type YouAreHere www.volksnav.de/YouAreHere 
>  etc. The resume is: actual standards can 
> only be suboptimal.
>  
>  
>  
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Standards] sponsoring / relevance / standard

[Scott Simmons]

Jody,

We are in the process of voting on our new Policies and Procedures for 
development of Standards - the vote ends in about a month and then we will see 
if we offer the Community Standards option.

A quick summary: a Community Standard will allow an externally-developed 
“standard” (e.g., a data encoding developed by a commercial entity, a de facto 
standard, or a legacy encoding that is not managed by any particular 
organization) to enter the OGC process in an expedited fashion for endorsement 
as an OGC Standard. Such a standard may share Intellectual Property rights 
between the OGC and originating party. The most important criterion is that the 
proposed standard be broadly implemented: either many different software 
implementations or a few implementations with many users.

Best Regards,
Scott

> On Oct 19, 2015, at 1:46 AM, Jody Garnett <jody.garn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> The OGC is trying to be easier to get involved with, you can look up the 
> "community standards" here and see what you think.
> 
> Sigh: I just tried and could not find it ... 
> 
> --
> Jody Garnett
> 
> On 18 October 2015 at 03:53, Munich Orientation Convention 
> <volks...@volksnav.de <mailto:volks...@volksnav.de>> wrote:
>  
> 
> Hi Cameron,
> 
>  
> 
> thank you for the kind support. According to Mahatma Gandhi, the stages for 
> innovations are:
> 
>  
> 
> First they ignore you,
> 
> then they laugh at you,
> 
> then they fight you.
> 
> Then you win.
> 
>  
> 
> OGC didn’t reach the second stage.
> 
> From my side, I’m open for any proposals in favor of the consumer, e. g. 50% 
> of the humankind who think to be unable to read maps 
> www.volksnav.de/YouAreHere <http://www.volksnav.de/YouAreHere>.
> 
>  
> 
> Henrique  
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> Von: Cameron Shorter [mailto:cameron.shor...@gmail.com 
> <mailto:cameron.shor...@gmail.com>] 
> Gesendet: Sonntag, 18. Oktober 2015 11:29
> An: Munich Orientation Convention; standa...@lists.osgeo.org 
> <mailto:standa...@lists.osgeo.org>
> Cc: is...@volksnav.bi <mailto:is...@volksnav.bi>; lib...@volksnav.bi 
> <mailto:lib...@volksnav.bi>; donat...@volksnav.bi <http://volksnav.bi/>; 
> Scott Simmons
> Betreff: Re: [OSGeo-Standards] sponsoring / relevance / standard
> 
>  
> 
> Hi Henrique,
> I suspect that you would be better served to develop a standard under the 
> umbrella of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC).
> The OGC is specifically set up to develop spatial standards, where as OSGeo 
> has a focus on Open Source geospatial software (which typically makes use of 
> OGC standards).
> 
> Have you reached out to the OGC community yet? If not, I suggest getting in 
> touch with them. I've CCed Scott Simmons from the OGC, who is also on this 
> list.
> 
> Warm regards,
> Cameron
> 
> On 18/10/2015 7:30 pm, Munich Orientation Convention wrote:
> 
>  
> 
> Hello Jeff,
> 
>  
> 
> I'm deeply grateful that I've been invited to propose to this discussion 
> forum the possibility to let the Munich Orientation Convention be an OSGeo 
> standard.
> 
>  
> 
> So Burundian authorities could discover and prove the benefits of the system. 
> They have already effectuated the creation of the VolksNav S.a  
> www.volksnav.bi <http://www.volksnav.bi/> which will now be the local 
> provider of better orientation tools. VolksNav S.a will also produce maps 
> with clock based search grids and plans to reproduce all introduced systems 
> in other African countries. Investors are already knocking on the door.
> 
>  
> 
> The dominoes will fall from there, the Convention will be a de-facto standard 
> and OSGeo will have no relevance within this process.
> 
>  
> 
> I'd like to return the favor in 2016 as a sponsor. Would this be possible or 
> are there restrictions on that?
> 
>  
> 
> Henrique
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Standards] sponsoring / relevance / standard

[Scott Simmons]

Hi Henrique,

Cameron has raised a very good point: we in the OGC need some interest from our 
members to start movement on a new standard. Perhaps you would be willing to 
brief OGC membership on your ideas and/or identify some “champions” inside the 
OGC who might start discussing the topic?

If I understand your message correctly, you have some interest in standardizing 
your convention. One important factor for OGC would be completely free access 
to the standard for the general public. Could this work within your licensing 
model?

Thanks and Regards,
Scott

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> On Oct 18, 2015, at 1:34 PM, Cameron Shorter <cameron.shor...@gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> Hi Henrique,
> It sounds like you are looking to build a ground swell of usage of a spatial 
> encoding system. This is a difficult task, and not something that OSGeo or 
> OGC processes are set up for.
> 
> First there needs to be a number of users all calling out for this standard, 
> then OGC will help these users work together to formalise the standard, then 
> software will start getting written to support the standard, then OSGeo will 
> help with branding this software as quality software. (I'm grossly 
> simplifying).
> 
> The very hard part, which I think is your challenge, is to build a ground 
> swell of people calling out for this standard. I wish you luck, but I think 
> it will be a hard.
> 
> Cameron
> 
> On 18/10/2015 9:53 pm, Munich Orientation Convention wrote:
>>  
>> Hi Cameron,
>>  
>> thank you for the kind support. According to Mahatma Gandhi, the stages for 
>> innovations are:
>>  
>> First they ignore you,
>> then they laugh at you,
>> then they fight you.
>> Then you win.
>>  
>> OGC didn’t reach the second stage.
>> From my side, I’m open for any proposals in favor of the consumer, e. g. 50% 
>> of the humankind who think to be unable to read maps 
>> www.volksnav.de/YouAreHere <http://www.volksnav.de/YouAreHere>.
>>  
>> Henrique  
>>  
>>  
>>  
>> Von: Cameron Shorter [mailto:cameron.shor...@gmail.com 
>> <mailto:cameron.shor...@gmail.com>] 
>> Gesendet: Sonntag, 18. Oktober 2015 11:29
>> An: Munich Orientation Convention; standa...@lists.osgeo.org 
>> <mailto:standa...@lists.osgeo.org>
>> Cc: is...@volksnav.bi <mailto:is...@volksnav.bi>; lib...@volksnav.bi 
>> <mailto:lib...@volksnav.bi>; donat...@volksnav.bi; Scott Simmons
>> Betreff: Re: [OSGeo-Standards] sponsoring / relevance / standard
>>  
>> Hi Henrique,
>> I suspect that you would be better served to develop a standard under the 
>> umbrella of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC).
>> The OGC is specifically set up to develop spatial standards, where as OSGeo 
>> has a focus on Open Source geospatial software (which typically makes use of 
>> OGC standards).
>> 
>> Have you reached out to the OGC community yet? If not, I suggest getting in 
>> touch with them. I've CCed Scott Simmons from the OGC, who is also on this 
>> list.
>> 
>> Warm regards,
>> Cameron
>> 
>> On 18/10/2015 7:30 pm, Munich Orientation Convention wrote:
>>  
>> Hello Jeff,
>>  
>> I'm deeply grateful that I've been invited to propose to this discussion 
>> forum the possibility to let the Munich Orientation Convention be an OSGeo 
>> standard. 
>>  
>> So Burundian authorities could discover and prove the benefits of the 
>> system. They have already effectuated the creation of the VolksNav S.a  
>> www.volksnav.bi <http://www.volksnav.bi/> which will now be the local 
>> provider of better orientation tools. VolksNav S.a will also produce maps 
>> with clock based search grids and plans to reproduce all introduced systems 
>> in other African countries. Investors are already knocking on the door.
>>  
>> The dominoes will fall from there, the Convention will be a de-facto 
>> standard and OSGeo will have no relevance within this process.
>>  
>> I'd like to return the favor in 2016 as a sponsor. Would this be possible or 
>> are there restrictions on that?
>>  
>> Henrique
>> 
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Standards] Lidar News magazine false statements on (L)GPL (Was REPORT: my OGC membership slot)

[Scott Simmons]

Cameron,

I’ll stay away from the legal opinions of open source - this is really outside 
my domain

As to the Point Cloud Domain Working Group, we held the first official meeting 
of the group a few weeks ago in Nottingham.  A couple of good developments:

1. The elected chairs come from a diversity of experience (commercial and 
academia) and are not limited to LiDAR expertise;
2. The group is starting to develop a list of potential actions to pursue.

A public wiki exists, but is only just now beginning to get populated.
http://external.opengis.org/twiki_public/PointCloudDWG/WebHome 


The group plans regular telecons - I’ll make sure to announce those to the 
OSGeo discussion list.

Best Regards,
Scott

> On Oct 4, 2015, at 9:34 PM, Cameron Shorter  wrote:
> 
> Hi Martin,
> Based on your description below, it appears that Lewis Graham is using 
> deliberate technical obfuscation under the banner of ASPRS, which is 
> tarnishing the technical credibility of ASPRS.
> 
> Oliver's detailed rebuttal is good, but is only valuable if a number of 
> people of influence who read and are swayed by the rebuttal.
> 
> Roland,
> I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on publishing a correction of facts, 
> as presented by Oliver (or similar)?
> Further, in future, you might find it helpful to consult with experts in Open 
> Standards prior to publishing, in order to:
> a. Correct facts before publishing, and hence provide a more credible 
> publication. We can put you in touch with appropriate experts.
> b. Provide a balanced article, with different opinions.
> Would you like us to help source contacts that you could call upon for an 
> opinion?
> 
> Martin,
> I hope we don't have to go as far as building upon our previous Open Letter, 
> which would effectively publicly discredit Lewis (again) and would tarnish 
> the reputation of Lewis/ASPRS and wouldn't look good for publications 
> presenting un-countered FUD.
> 
> Scott,
> I suspect the OGC might be interested in helping counter the FUD being 
> spread. Possibly by approaching offenders behind the scene and suggesting 
> they desist with the FUD, or by respectfully countering the FUD in public 
> forums. 
> 
> Martin, Scott,
> I'd be interested to hear how the OGC Point Cloud working group has been 
> progressing.
> Is positive progress being made?
> (Feel free to point at a blog or web page or similar which might already have 
> such details).
> 
> Warm regards,
> Cameron Shorter
> 
> 
> 
> On 3/10/2015 11:46 pm, Martin Isenburg wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I was hoping that Lewis Graham would see the futility of furthering his 
>> incorrect claims on the "dangers" of the LGPL license for commercial 
>> projects (and his other odd statements) but he continues to do so not just 
>> in private but also in his role as the Chair of the ASRPS LAS Working Group  
>> This gives his FUD non-sense a very prominent outlet in front of very 
>> influential people, so OSGeo should probably respond to this a bit more 
>> loudly than usual.
>> 
>> In the "LiDAR Sidebar" at the ASPRS UAS Reno conference [1] there was a 
>> discussion on point cloud formats that was more or less a direct consequence 
>> of the "Open Letter" by OSGeo [2]. Lewis continued to claim that it was 
>> impossible to make LASzip an official format because I would be unwilling to 
>> donated it under an MIT license to the ASPRS (note: i do not even remember 
>> being asked) and that an LGPL would be impossible and "dangerous" for 
>> commercial companies to work with (note: nevermind the 55+ companies that 
>> already do [3]).
>> 
>> So I emailed the participants (my dial-in connection was shakey) the 
>> following:
>> 
>> "Here a detailed rebuttal of Lewis' "LGPL of Martin's LASzip implementation 
>> is dangerous" non-sense:
>> http://odoepner.wordpress.com/2015/06/16/lidar-news-publishes-uninformed-gpl-rant/
>>  
>> 
>> And yes, the currently available open LASzip format implementation (!!!) 
>> comes with a "static linking exception" because some new devices do not 
>> support dynamic linking well. Would be good to get someone to sponsor the 
>> creation of an open LASzip format specification (!!!) so anyone can 
>> reimplement it and give their resulting implementation whatever license they 
>> see best fit. A license is only attached to a particular implementation. 
>> From an open LASzip format specification anyone could write their own 
>> implementation (closed or open with any license they want)."
>> 
>> To which Lewis answered (just repeating the same old FUD):
>> 
>> "Rather than entering into an inane debate over licensing with Martin, I 
>> suggest anyone who is concerned check with their intellectual property 
>> attorney prior to incorporating third party software into internal build 
>> software, regardless of 

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Use cases and requirements for web maps

[Scott Simmons]

Cameron,

Thanks!  Yes, we do currently have a joint working group with W3C for “Spatial 
Data on the Web” and that group has been keeping tabs on the activity of this 
community in W3C.  Interestingly, I think that Jo’s e-mail has rekindled some 
of the interest (certainly has for me!).

Best Regards,
Scott


> On Sep 28, 2015, at 2:45 PM, Cameron Shorter  
> wrote:
> 
> Scott, Carl,
> I suspect this initiative would be something that the OGC would be interested 
> in?
> 
> Cheers, Cameron
> 
> On 28/09/2015 9:06 pm, Jo Cook wrote:
>> Hi All,
>> 
>> I just wanted to draw your attention to this, from W3C if you have not 
>> already seen it. I don't have the technical know-how to see if there are any 
>> negative implications but there are opportunities to comment.
>> 
>> https://www.w3.org/community/maps4html/ 
>> 
>> http://maps4html.github.io/HTML-Map-Element-UseCases-Requirements/ 
>> 
>> 
>> Regards
>> 
>> Jo
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: [TC-Announce] Final agenda for the Point Cloud DWG - Nottingham

[Scott Simmons]

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Dear OSGeo participants,

Please note that the OGC will be hosting our first official meeting of a Point 
Cloud Domain Working Group at our upcoming meeting in Nottingham, UK.  If you 
would like to attend in person or via web conference, please contact me and I 
will coordinate access.

Thanks and Regards,
Scott

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> Begin forwarded message:
> 
> From: "Tillman, Stanley P (Stan)" <stan.till...@hexagongeospatial.com>
> Subject: [TC-Announce] Final agenda for the Point Cloud DWG - Nottingham
> Date: September 5, 2015 at 12:11:48 PM MDT
> To: "tc-annou...@lists.opengeospatial.org" 
> <tc-annou...@lists.opengeospatial.org>, 
> "pointcloud@lists.opengeospatial.org" 
> <pointcloud@lists.opengeospatial.org>
> 
> Hello all,
>  
> Due to the overwhelming response to this session, the Point Cloud DWG session 
> has been extended to cover two time slots.  This has given us some extra 
> space for a couple of presentations that might have been turned away and it 
> will give us some discussion time to plan for future work.
>  
> So the newly formed Point Cloud DWG will have its first official meeting on 
> Tuesday, September 15 @ 13:00.  The agenda will be as follows:
>  
> ·Review the Charter (edits and corrections, additional charter 
> members, etc.)
> o   Stan Tillman, Intergraph
> ·Election of chair(s)
> o   Stan Tillman, Intergraph
> ·Serving LiDAR thru existing OGC services
> o   Scott Pakula, Pixia
> ·Point Cloud Usage in a Railway Context and rules/issues related to 
> extraction and sharing
> o   Barry Gleeson, RICS
> ·IQmulus - Cloud Platform for Point Cloud Processing
> o   Jan Boehm, University College London
> ·OGC WCS: fomat-independent point cloud services
> o   Peter Baumann, Jacobs University
> ·Point Cloud from Photogrammetry
> o   Jean-Baptiste, Thales
> ·The ASTM E57 Data Interoperability Standard
> o   Gene Roe, Lidar News
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open LiDAR being discussed at OGC Technical Committee Meeting

[Scott Simmons]

Dear OSGeo members,

Per Cameron’s message below, we have a limited number of GoTo Meeting 
connections, so if you wish to join the meeting, please register at this link 
and the GoTo Meeting details will be forwarded to you.

https://portal.opengeospatial.org/public_ogc/register/1506pointcloud.php 
https://portal.opengeospatial.org/public_ogc/register/1506pointcloud.php

Thanks and Regards,
Scott

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 On May 29, 2015, at 4:28 PM, Cameron Shorter cameron.shor...@gmail.com 
 wrote:
 
 Following on from the OSGeo Open Letter on the Need for Open Standards in 
 LiDAR [1], Martin Isenburg has been invited to give a 10 minute presentation 
 as part of the Point Cloud discussion at the next OGC Technical Committee 
 Meeting, 3pm EDT, this Monday 1 June [2], in Boulder Colorado USA. It is 
 possible to participate in this meeting via goto-meeting and phone, although 
 I'm not sure about capacity. Scott Simmons (CCed) from the OGC has details.
 
 I've seen Martin's slides. They are excellent. They clearly articulate the 
 problem, and provide a clear and simple 5 step solution.
 
 Martin, your slides, in combination with any actions, feedback, or comments 
 that come from this meeting will be very news worthy. I suggest that you 
 publish these slides, or alternatively convert them to a blog post or 
 similar, and publish soon after the meeting.
 
 We should also approach news agencies as we did before and invite them to 
 write up this story. Telling this story will help the greater community 
 understand how to promote and select Open LiDAR standards.
 
 Martin, I'm sure I speak for the OSGeo community and 140 people who signed 
 your letter in wishing you all the best in your presentation on Monday.
 
 [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/LIDAR_Format_Letter 
 http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/LIDAR_Format_Letter
 [2] http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20150601T1900 
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[OSGeo-Discuss] OGC Point Cloud ad hoc meeting registration details

[Scott Simmons]

Dear OSGeo community,

Please note that we have opened registration for the upcoming Point Cloud ad 
hoc session at the OGC Boulder Technical Committee meeting.  That session is 
scheduled for 1300 Mountain Daylight Time (1900 UTC) on Monday, 1 June.  
Registration details can be found at:

https://portal.opengeospatial.org/public_ogc/register/1506pointcloud.php 
https://portal.opengeospatial.org/public_ogc/register/1506pointcloud.php

For those of you wishing to participate remotely, GoTo Meeting details will be 
mailed to you upon completion of your registration.  There are a limited number 
of GoTo Meeting seats available.

Thanks and Regards,
Scott

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Point Cloud ad hoc session at upcoming OGC meeting

[Scott Simmons]

Cameron,

We actually started planning this activity and session a couple of months 
before the Open Letter was formulated and released.  We have a number of 
members interested in assessing the state and future of standardization across 
many types of point cloud data.  So I am working to ensure that we frame the 
conversation based first on the known technical needs of the Point Cloud 
community, then specific to some member requested items such as the 
requirements surrounding LiDAR encoding and optimization as addressed in the 
Open Letter.  Hence the inclusion of discussion around meteorologic data, web 
services, coverage models, etc.  Personally, I am super-excited about 
discussions around clever wrappers for compression and streaming algorithms 
(just because that is part of my personal history!).

While this is a relatively short session, we will walk away with some areas for 
focus and plans for follow-up web conferences and further face-to-face meetings.

Thanks for participating!

Best Regards,
Scott

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 On May 11, 2015, at 5:18 PM, Cameron Shorter cameron.shor...@lisasoft.com 
 wrote:
 
 Hi Scott,
 I seems the Point Cloud agenda doesn't yet cover the 4 key points from the 
 Open Letter?
 http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/LIDAR_Format_Letter#Open_Letter_of_the_Need_for_Open_Standards_in_LiDAR
  
 http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/LIDAR_Format_Letter#Open_Letter_of_the_Need_for_Open_Standards_in_LiDAR
 
 Maybe have someone such as Martin Isenburg lead such discussion?
 Martin, would you be available?
 
  Draft Agenda:
  Scott Simmons, OGC: Introduction to Point Cloud discussion and summary of 
  standards efforts
  Chris Little, UK Met Office: What (where and when) is the Point in 
  Meteorology
  Keith Ryden, Esri: Enterprise community requirements for point clouds
  Michael Gerlek: Current situation and future work for point clouds
  Peter Baumann: Point clouds in coverages
 
 On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 2:23 AM, Scott Simmons ssimm...@opengeospatial.org 
 mailto:ssimm...@opengeospatial.org wrote:
 All,
 
 Please note that the agenda location has changed to:
 
 https://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=63241 
 https://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=63241
 
 Thanks,
 Scott
 
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 On May 11, 2015, at 10:01 AM, Scott Simmons ssimm...@opengeospatial.org 
 mailto:ssimm...@opengeospatial.org wrote:
 
 Dear All,
 
 At the upcoming OGC Technical Committee meeting in Boulder, Colorado USA, we 
 will be holding an ad hoc session on standardization activities related to 
 Point Cloud data.  The session will be held on 1 June 2015 from 1300 - 1445 
 Mountain Daylight Time and will include a GoTo Meeting for remote 
 participation.  This meeting is open to the public.
 
 A draft agenda is evolving and can be found here:
 https://portal.opengeospatial.org/modules/files/details.php?m=filesartifact_id=62956
  
 https://portal.opengeospatial.org/modules/files/details.php?m=filesartifact_id=62956
 
 Please note that the meeting will include significant time for discussion.  
 I encourage the OSGeo community to participate.
 
 Thanks and Regards,
 Scott
 
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Point Cloud ad hoc session at upcoming OGC meeting

[Scott Simmons]

Dear All,

At the upcoming OGC Technical Committee meeting in Boulder, Colorado USA, we 
will be holding an ad hoc session on standardization activities related to 
Point Cloud data.  The session will be held on 1 June 2015 from 1300 - 1445 
Mountain Daylight Time and will include a GoTo Meeting for remote 
participation.  This meeting is open to the public.

A draft agenda is evolving and can be found here:
https://portal.opengeospatial.org/modules/files/details.php?m=filesartifact_id=62956
 
https://portal.opengeospatial.org/modules/files/details.php?m=filesartifact_id=62956

Please note that the meeting will include significant time for discussion.  I 
encourage the OSGeo community to participate.

Thanks and Regards,
Scott

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] [Ica-osgeo-labs] The LAS format, the ASPRS, and the “LAZ clone” by ESRI

[Scott Simmons]

(note: resend to make sure this gets on the lists)

Hi Stefan,

I will make a few comments!

GeoPackage: the OGC Compliance Program develops conformance test suites for OGC 
Standards after the Standards have been officially adopted.  This process takes 
time and requires thorough testing itself.  A GeoPackage test suite has not yet 
been completed, but you can see a list of tests and roadmap for test 
development here:

http://cite.opengeospatial.org/roadmap http://cite.opengeospatial.org/roadmap

The most complete listing of implementations for GeoPackage is here:

http://www.geopackage.org/#implementations 
http://www.geopackage.org/#implementations

With another registry here:

http://www.opengeospatial.org/resource/products/byspec 
http://www.opengeospatial.org/resource/products/byspec

Yes, I know that the two registries have some differences - something we are 
working on in OGC to synchronize!

With respect to support of an OGC Standard by any organization, the OGC 
membership provides the Standards as free and open and thus, they can be 
implemented by anyone; we don’t rate nor comment on the degree to which an 
organization implements the Standard unless the implementation is submitted for 
formal Certification by OGC.

LiDAR: the OGC is certainly open to reviewing standardization of LiDAR and 
other point cloud data.  This thread has expressed interest for further 
discussion and I have been approached my other OGC members on the topic.  For 
anyone attending the upcoming OGC TC meeting in Barcelona - find me and we can 
talk LiDAR.  I will be happy to organize a telecon or face-to-face discussion 
at a future TC meeting to plan a way forward on this topic.  I also recommend 
that interested people bring up the subject on the OGC 3D Information 
Management Domain Working Group (3DIM DWG) mailing list:

3dim...@lists.opengeospatial.org mailto:3dim...@lists.opengeospatial.org

Best Regards,
Scott

Scott Simmons
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Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
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 On Mar 3, 2015, at 1:18 AM, Stefan Keller sfkel...@gmail.com 
 mailto:sfkel...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 Hi,
 
 2015-03-03 7:13 GMT+01:00 Even Rouault even.roua...@spatialys.com 
 mailto:even.roua...@spatialys.com wrote:
 Hi Cameron,
 ...
 Currently there's no finalized conformance test suite available for 
 GeoPackage
 to test implementations, so there's no official reference implementation or
 conformant implementations.
 
 I'd wish Scott or somebody from OGC could comment on this (and this
 thread in general).
 
 * It is probably not appropriate for OSGeo as an organisation to
 directly point out ESRI's lack of support for GeoPackage write capability.
 
 I agree. The best marketing, if needed, would be to point at our
 implementations that do support write capability.
 
 Be aware that it's not only read/write support one should report and
 request in order to make a standard format an alternative to
 Shapefiles.
 For ArcGIS it's also edit capabilities (for whatever reason...).
 
 Yours, S.
 
 
 2015-03-03 7:13 GMT+01:00 Even Rouault even.roua...@spatialys.com 
 mailto:even.roua...@spatialys.com:
 Hi Cameron,
 
 It is difficult for OSGeo to stop a vendor from promoting their product,
 or promoting a specific lock in strategy.
 
 Of course. That was exactly my point.
 
 
 But we can:
 * Support the OGC in developing an OGC standard for LiDAR. Once a
 standard is in place, there is a much stronger reason to make use of
 that Open Standard. In particular, many national government agencies
 have policies which promote standards over proprietary interfaces.
 
 With my mostly uninformed eyes in that topic, I don't know if OGC is the most
 relevant organization in that matter. It seems that the ASPRS would be a more
 natural host as it has already published the spec of the (uncompressed) LAS
 format:
 http://www.asprs.org/Committee-General/LASer-LAS-File-Format-Exchange- 
 http://www.asprs.org/Committee-General/LASer-LAS-File-Format-Exchange-
 Activities.html
 
 I'm not sure about the LASzip format however, the compressed one, which is 
 the
 one that ESRI has cloned into zLAS. I skimmed through 
 http://www.laszip.org/
 and couldn't find a reference to something more formal than LGPL code that
 implements it ;-)
 
 
 * Provide a position statement (as has been suggested) which explains
 technically the pros and cons of both the proprietary and open LiDAR
 interface.
 
 There are at least a few persons in the OSGeo community that have direct
 interest in LiDAR and are likely reading this thread. Perhaps some 
 discussions
 are already happening behind the scene ?
 
 
 Regarding OGC GeoPackage standard:
 * I would hope that OGC's list of standards supported has a tick for
 read only, and tick for read/write support, so consumers can tell