RE: [SDW-WG] Introduction

Hello All,



My name is Martin Chapman and I work for a small company called Pixia Corp. 
I joined the working group because I’m a GIS software developer and have 
been incorporating many of the OGC standards into my applications for over a 
decade.  The thought of merging the OGC standards with the W3C standards 
sounded brilliant to me and I wanted to learn more (kudos to whoever’s brain 
child that is).  Like many others I will mostly be a silent observer and 
with any lucky maybe I will have something intelligent to contribute along 
the way.  I missed the first meeting because I live in Colorado and the 
meeting was 2 AM my time, but I was hoping someone could fill me in on the 
high level goals of the initiative?  A couple of quick questions if anyone 
can answer them?



1.       Is the idea to create something like a CSS for geospatial 
attributes (GSS for example) of HTML markup where you could associate 
geometries with TAG elements via a class attribute?  In other words, every 
page, div, button, link, image, etc tag... can have a shape or location 
attribute?

2.       Or is the idea to add a native library to JavaScript like JS Math 
or JS Date called JS Geometry or JS Geography or something geospatial 
related that would have functions to do coordinate conversion, unit 
translation, mensuration, etc?

3.       Or is the idea to add well know geospatial classifications to text 
/ images / documents in order to make search engines more robust for 
querying geospatial related data?

4.       Or is the idea to create some new type of URL protocol like mailto: 
or http: but for geospatial like goto: that takes you to a location on a map 
or something?  Maybe a WMS GetMap url like getmap:http://… ?

5.       Or is the idea to introduce new types of HTML tags like <table> and 
<div> but for geospatial like <polygon>, <linestring> or <map> so browsers 
could have built in map rendering support?

6.       Or is it something completely different from what I’ve mentioned?



Sorry for all the questions, I am just trying to wrap my head around the 
goals.  Thanks in advance for any help.



Best regards,

Martin



From: Ig Ibert Bittencourt [mailto:ig.ibert@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2015 6:52 AM
To: public-sdw-wg@w3.org
Subject: [SDW-WG] Introduction



Dear All,



I am sending this e-mail to introduce for the Working Group.



My name is Ig Ibert Bittencourt and I am a Professor at Federal University 
of Alagoas (Brazil) [1] and an Entrepreneur [2] at MeuTutor Soluções 
Educacionais, which is a Startup focused on Artificial Intelligence in 
Education and we are using Ontologies and Open Data for providing innovation 
in our solutions. My area of expertise is Semantic Web and Linked Data.



Thank you very much and I hope to learn a lot all of you.



All the very best,



Ig Ibert Bittencourt

Professor Adjunto III - Instituto de Computação/Universidade Federal de 
Alagoas (UFAL)

Vice-Coordenador da Comissão Especial de Informática na Educação

Líder do Centro de Excelência em Tecnologias Sociais

Co-fundador da Startup MeuTutor Soluções Educacionais LTDA.