RE: April 25 2006 GIS SC Meeting notes

In attendance: Carl, Gary H, Rex B, Adam, Tom M, Dave E.

 

The majority of the discussion focused on my earlier request for the SC 
members to review the GeoRSS specification (www.georss.org) with an eye on whether 
components of that specification would be useful WRT enhancing both CAP and EDXL 
with stronger and more flexible capabilities for handling geospatial content. 
The other topic of discussion was Elliot Christians' request regarding using 
Google Earth to display CAP alerts.

 

The key discussion points were:

 

1. There was general agreement that the examples in georss are simple 
enough that a programmer could easily learn and understand how to implement the 
geometry elements described in georss.

2. There was agreement that the examples and use cases suggest that the 
geometry elements of GeoRSS are very implementable.

3. There was agreement that perhaps the best place might be the Resource 
Element (Location) to include these geometry types as defined in GeoRSS.

4. There was agreement that if we can get consensus on this, then we would 
have a possible common approach for both CAP and EDXL.

5. We had some discussion on the sensitivities related to the work of 
Justice and that we want to make sure that we recognize their investment while 
at the same time providing mechanisms for making their jobs easier.

6. There was discussion regarding the security aspects of the above 
outlined approach.

7. An action is to develop examples for the Resource Element, such as 
wildland fires.

8. Discussion on Google Earth displaying CAP alerts focused on concerns 
regarding possible inconsistencies with the current CAP standard. No 
solution.

 

Respectfully submitted

 

Carl Reed, PhD
CTO and Executive Director Specification 
Program
OGC

 

The OGC: Helping the World to Communicate Geographically

 

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