Introduction

Dear Colleagues,

I’m Clemens Portele from interactive instruments, a company based in Germany focussed on information systems involving spatial and temporal information. I have been active in OGC as well as ISO and INSPIRE for many years, including as an editor of standards and specifications. So far I have not been involved in standards work in W3C, but am looking forward to the experience.

My interest in the Spatial Data on the Web work is at this time mainly on the Best Practices deliverable and this is where I expect my main contributions. In my environment, the web is more than linked data / semantic web and I would like to see the Best Practices document supporting also use cases that have that broader picture. This is covered well in the charter as questions relating to, for example, good practices on URIs for geographic data and RESTful APIs supporting different encodings for geographic data are generic web-related topics.

I am also interested in consistency between the conceptual foundation for geographic data developed in OGC and ISO with the results of this group. In this context it will be interesting to see and learn, if changes to that foundation are advisable in order to improve the usability of geographic data on the web.

Best regards,
Clemens

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Clemens Portele
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