OGC invites you to indulge in a SELFIE: the Second Environmental Linked Features Interoperability Experiment

Hi,

Tried to forward this yesterday but the list is doing its job of preventing spam.  Here's the substance of yesterday's message.

I saw this and wondered if some of this community group's members might want to use this OGC interoperability experiment as a vehicle to co-develop and prototype a GeoWeb model based on MapML / Maps for HTML concepts.

http://www.opengeospatial.org/pressroom/pressreleases/2958

We need to think about how to link maps and map features together in a way that isn't 'artificial' i.e. is actually useful to the map / application, but isn't (necessarily) an exercise in generating metadata to link stuff that wouldn't otherwise be linked.  For example, say US wanted to link their national map service to Japan's national map service, to provide a seamless, authoritative, federated map, analogous to the HTML Web where authors put links in Web documents that may be activated by the user if they choose.  In other words, the link isn't metadata, it's data that is intentionally marked up.  How (best) to achieve that in the case of maps / map features is the question, I think.

Your thoughts?

Cheers,
Peter


Peter Rushforth

Technology Advisor
Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation
Natural Resources Canada / Government of Canada
peter.rushforth@canada.ca<mailto:peter.rushforth@canada.ca> / Tel: 613-759-7915

Conseiller technique
Centre canadien de cartographie et d'observation de la Terre
Ressources naturelles Canada / Gouvernement du Canada
peter.rushforth@canada.ca<mailto:peter.rushforth@canada.ca> / Tél: 613-759-7915