Re: OGC Temporal DWG. Was: space and time

Thanks a lot for this update on the Temporal DWG, Chris.

I wonder whether you plan to coordinate work with the joint W3C/OGC
Spatial Data on the Web WG. Clearly, the two WGs have a different
scope, but it would be desirable to have interoperable, or at least
not incompatible, specifications.

Cheers,

Andrea

On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 4:36 PM, Little, Chris
<chris.little@metoffice.gov.uk> wrote:
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> OGC started a Temporal Domain Working Group last year to address a number of
> problems in the geospatial domain. In particular, that time is usually just
> viewed as Yet Another Attribute of Features, rather than a first class
> coordinate.
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> We agreed earlier this year, in Geneva, that the OGC Naming Authority would
> have a branch to register Temporal, and index based, Coordinate Reference
> Systems, and we agreed on the fundamental attributes that a CRS should have
> to be registered.
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> We hope to produce a Best Practice document this year to help clarify many
> confusions between CRSs, notations, calendars, operations and calculations.
> I think that now we have a good enough understanding of the underlying
> conceptual issues and current geospatial standards.
>
> We have been accumulating info on an open wiki
> http://external.opengeospatial.org/twiki_public/TemporalDWG/WebHome and
> discussing via our mailing list, though we are not very disciplined about
> it.
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> One concern that I have is that we do not re-invent the wheel, and do
> nugatory work, hence this email. I do not envisage that we will need to do
> much with Calendars, which have been covered so well by Dershowitz and
> Reingold.
>
> Best wishes, Chris
>
>
> Chris Little
> Co-Chair, OGC Meteorology & Oceanography Domain Working Group
> Co-Chair, OGC Temporal Domain Working Group
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