RE: Notes from April 23 2010 Geo-GIS SC teleconference

Hannes, Rex, Carl, Doug

 

1. Doug did a short brief on Geospatial presentation of CAP messages in 
Canadian context. Gave briefing to Virtual USA and showed Canadian application, 
including "layers". Met with Dr. Boyd. Much enthusiasm for the approach.

 

2. Tactical Situation Object - Official CEN note - a year or two away from 
completing the ISO track. Has been in existence since 2002. Relatively mature. 
Aimed at machine to machine communication. Based in part on CAP. Have no idea on 
well implemented it is. From NCOIC perspective, create a new pattern and are 
adjudicating change requests. Has some situational components in the spec. For 
OASIS purposes, may be sufficiently useful from say Point of Interest or Cursor 
on Target types of applications. TSO, however, is always associated with an 
event. This may cause some issues in terms of EM deployments. Perhaps OASIS can 
profile TSO so that the focus is small and could just be something like a 
traffic accident. Another point: What is the actual scope of what we are trying 
to accomplish? Problem with the use of the word "situation" - semantics related 
to origins in the France community. 

 

3. Carl and Hannes will get together at GITA and discuss "where" go 
forward.

 

4. Talked about the IETF LO (Location Object) RFC (GML application schema). 
Could take this schema and add a few pieces if required. Then would be 
consistent with IETF and NENA NG 911 activities. Asked about the IETF civic RFC 
also: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5139 

 

Regards

 

Carl Reed, PhD
CTO and Executive Director Specification 
Program
OGC

 

The OGC: Helping the World to Communicate Geographically

 

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