SDW-WG plenary call (Thu 15-Sep-2022) cancelled. Please use your new spare hour to share your thoughts on WoT use of geospatial standards.

Hello SDW-WGers. For those of you in northern hemisphere, Linda and I hope that you had a good summer break. We cancelled the plenary call in August because of summer vacations. Unfortunately, neither Linda nor I are available tomorrow to chair the September plenary call. Apologies. So:

**The SDW-WG plenary call (Thu 15-Sep-2022) is cancelled.**

However, back on 21-Jul-2022, Michael McCool asked to help him and his WG understand how Web of Things (WoT) can use existing geospatial standards to meet their needs, and also to determine where the gaps are. See Michael slides here [1].

WoT has a number of applications that are "geospatial" - including Building Information Management (BIM) and Smart Cities. Future requirements will likely include Digital Twins and, consequently, have even more reliance on geospatial. WoT planned to discuss use cases and requirements at TPAC this week also.

In terms of requirements for geospatial standards, WoT is mostly interested in leveraging modular ontologies for geospatial / geolocation. On 21-Jul we had some discussion on fitness for purpose of GeoSPARQL, Geopose, etc. Also, we noted how IETF's JSON-Path doesn't include generic javascript, which improves run-time safety but means it's difficult to extend, say, with distance calculations. More assessment / thinking was needed.

Where gaps are identified, WoT plans to create work items in their new Charter, with the work itself starting early next year. WoT hope to finalise their charter pretty soon, so we need to provide input ASAP.

So. Instead of meeting for an hour - Linda and I ask that you share your thoughts about use of geospatial standards to meet WoT requirements. And we can provide some consolidate input to WoT's charter development.

I've created an issue in our GitHub repo where we can collect your input:

How can WoT use geospatial standards? #1367 [2]

Many thanks for your help.

Jeremy


[1]: https://github.com/w3c/wot/blob/main/PRESENTATIONS/2022-07-WoT-SDW-McCool.pdf
[2]: https://github.com/w3c/sdw/issues/1367