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Posted to dev@sis.apache.org by Martin Desruisseaux <ma...@geomatys.fr> on 2014/01/28 12:29:36 UTC

ApacheCon proposal: Apache SIS and standards in Geospatial information

Hello all

While we are waiting for the wiki (thanks Adam for forwarding the email 
to infra), below is a first draft of an abstract proposal to the Apache 
conference (Denvers, April 7-9). The deadline for submission is Friday 
night, this week. Do peoples feel okay with that?

Submission type: Presentation

Category: Developer

Abstract:
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Apache Spatial Information System (SIS) is a Java library for developing 
geospatial applications in close conformance with international 
standards. SIS implements interfaces derived from the UML published 
jointly by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and the International 
Organization for Standardization (ISO). This presentation will introduce 
why standards matter, OGC vision, the GeoAPI approach, Apache SIS 
implementation and its roadmap. This first SIS presentation will focus 
on metadata (ISO 19115) and referencing by coordinates (ISO 19111). We 
will give a quick introduction to geodesy (did you knew that specifying 
latitude and longitude is not sufficient for uniquely identifying a 
position on Earth?) and see how existing resources can handle part of 
the complexity for the developers.

Who the audience is and what we expect them to get:
--------------------------------------------------------------------
The audience is anyone who wish to handle geographic data in their 
product and would like to familiarize with such topic. Attendees can 
expect a big picture of standardization efforts, identify where some of 
the complexity stands and how to hide it. In particular we will compare 
the impact on complexity between using the XSD available on-line or the 
UML as the source for application programming interfaces. Finally, 
attendees can expect an overview of test suites that may help them to 
increase their confidence in the georeferencing performed by their product.

How the content may help better the Apache and open source ecosystem:
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Geospatial data are ubiquitous, but the difficulty of handling them 
accurately is very often under-estimated. Many applications just handle 
latitudes and longitudes without realizing their ambiguity. This 
presentation will hopefully help to improve awareness about standards, 
encourage participation to implementation-neutral efforts like OGC works 
and GeoAPI interfaces, encourage existing products to test themselves 
against available test suites, and encourage participation to the 
improvement of those implementation-neutral test suites. Then we hope to 
raise interest in Apache SIS as one powerful implementation of the above.

Experience level: intermediate

Technical requirement: screen


Re: ApacheCon proposal: Apache SIS and standards in Geospatial information

Posted by Martin Desruisseaux <ma...@geomatys.fr>.
Hello David

Thanks a lot for your edits! They look perfect for me.

     Martin


Le 28/01/14 20:01, David Neufeld - NOAA Affiliate a écrit :
> Hi Martin,
>
> Some edits for your consideration:
>
> Submission type: Presentation
>
> Category: Developer
>
> Abstract:
>
> ------------------------------
>
> --------------------------------------
>
> Apache Spatial Information System (SIS) is a Java library for developing
> geospatial applications which conform to international standards. SIS
> implements interfaces derived from UML published jointly by the Open
> Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and the International Organization for
> Standardization (ISO). This presentation will introduce the OGC vision, the
> benefits of  standards, the GeoAPI approach of using interfaces to support
> standards, and the Apache SIS implementation of those interfaces as well as
> future roadmap. This first SIS presentation will focus on metadata (ISO
> 19115) and georeferencing by coordinates (ISO 19111). We will give a quick
> introduction to geodesy, in particular examining a common pitfall of only
> specifying a latitude and a longitude that is not sufficient for uniquely
> identifying a position on Earth, and demonstrate how Apache SIS can handle
> this part of the complexity for developers.
>
> Who the audience is and what we expect them to get:
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> This presentation is for anyone who wishes to utilize geographic data in
> their applications and would like to learn more about libraries that can
> simplify their development. Attendees can expect a big picture of
> standardization efforts, identify where some of the complexity stands, and
> how to hide it. In particular, we will compare the complexity of using an
> XML Schema Definition (XSD) available on-line to that of using UML as the
> source for application programming interfaces. Finally, attendees can
> expect an overview of test suites that may help them to increase their
> confidence in the georeferencing performed by their applications.
>
> How the content may help better the Apache and open source ecosystem:
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Geospatial data are ubiquitous, but the difficulty of handling them
> accurately is often under-estimated. Many applications just handle
> latitudes and longitudes without realizing their ambiguity. This
> presentation will hopefully help to improve awareness about standards,
> encourage participation in implementation-neutral efforts like those
> available from OGC and GeoAPI interfaces, encourage existing application
> developers to use available test suites, and encourage participation in the
> improvement of those implementation-neutral test suites. Lastly, we hope to
> raise interest in Apache SIS as a powerful tool for implementing standards
> based geospatial development and testing.
>
> Experience level: Intermediate
>
> Dave
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 4:29 AM, Martin Desruisseaux <
> martin.desruisseaux@geomatys.fr> wrote:
>
>> Hello all
>>
>> While we are waiting for the wiki (thanks Adam for forwarding the email to
>> infra), below is a first draft of an abstract proposal to the Apache
>> conference (Denvers, April 7-9). The deadline for submission is Friday
>> night, this week. Do peoples feel okay with that?
>>
>> Submission type: Presentation
>>
>> Category: Developer
>>
>> Abstract:
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Apache Spatial Information System (SIS) is a Java library for developing
>> geospatial applications in close conformance with international standards.
>> SIS implements interfaces derived from the UML published jointly by the
>> Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and the International Organization for
>> Standardization (ISO). This presentation will introduce why standards
>> matter, OGC vision, the GeoAPI approach, Apache SIS implementation and its
>> roadmap. This first SIS presentation will focus on metadata (ISO 19115) and
>> referencing by coordinates (ISO 19111). We will give a quick introduction
>> to geodesy (did you knew that specifying latitude and longitude is not
>> sufficient for uniquely identifying a position on Earth?) and see how
>> existing resources can handle part of the complexity for the developers.
>>
>> Who the audience is and what we expect them to get:
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>> The audience is anyone who wish to handle geographic data in their product
>> and would like to familiarize with such topic. Attendees can expect a big
>> picture of standardization efforts, identify where some of the complexity
>> stands and how to hide it. In particular we will compare the impact on
>> complexity between using the XSD available on-line or the UML as the source
>> for application programming interfaces. Finally, attendees can expect an
>> overview of test suites that may help them to increase their confidence in
>> the georeferencing performed by their product.
>>
>> How the content may help better the Apache and open source ecosystem:
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Geospatial data are ubiquitous, but the difficulty of handling them
>> accurately is very often under-estimated. Many applications just handle
>> latitudes and longitudes without realizing their ambiguity. This
>> presentation will hopefully help to improve awareness about standards,
>> encourage participation to implementation-neutral efforts like OGC works
>> and GeoAPI interfaces, encourage existing products to test themselves
>> against available test suites, and encourage participation to the
>> improvement of those implementation-neutral test suites. Then we hope to
>> raise interest in Apache SIS as one powerful implementation of the above.
>>
>> Experience level: intermediate
>>
>> Technical requirement: screen
>>
>>


Re: ApacheCon proposal: Apache SIS and standards in Geospatial information

Posted by David Neufeld - NOAA Affiliate <da...@noaa.gov>.
Hi Martin,

Some edits for your consideration:

Submission type: Presentation

Category: Developer

Abstract:

------------------------------

--------------------------------------

Apache Spatial Information System (SIS) is a Java library for developing
geospatial applications which conform to international standards. SIS
implements interfaces derived from UML published jointly by the Open
Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and the International Organization for
Standardization (ISO). This presentation will introduce the OGC vision, the
benefits of  standards, the GeoAPI approach of using interfaces to support
standards, and the Apache SIS implementation of those interfaces as well as
future roadmap. This first SIS presentation will focus on metadata (ISO
19115) and georeferencing by coordinates (ISO 19111). We will give a quick
introduction to geodesy, in particular examining a common pitfall of only
specifying a latitude and a longitude that is not sufficient for uniquely
identifying a position on Earth, and demonstrate how Apache SIS can handle
this part of the complexity for developers.

Who the audience is and what we expect them to get:

--------------------------------------------------------------------

This presentation is for anyone who wishes to utilize geographic data in
their applications and would like to learn more about libraries that can
simplify their development. Attendees can expect a big picture of
standardization efforts, identify where some of the complexity stands, and
how to hide it. In particular, we will compare the complexity of using an
XML Schema Definition (XSD) available on-line to that of using UML as the
source for application programming interfaces. Finally, attendees can
expect an overview of test suites that may help them to increase their
confidence in the georeferencing performed by their applications.

How the content may help better the Apache and open source ecosystem:

--------------------------------------------------------------------

Geospatial data are ubiquitous, but the difficulty of handling them
accurately is often under-estimated. Many applications just handle
latitudes and longitudes without realizing their ambiguity. This
presentation will hopefully help to improve awareness about standards,
encourage participation in implementation-neutral efforts like those
available from OGC and GeoAPI interfaces, encourage existing application
developers to use available test suites, and encourage participation in the
improvement of those implementation-neutral test suites. Lastly, we hope to
raise interest in Apache SIS as a powerful tool for implementing standards
based geospatial development and testing.

Experience level: Intermediate

Dave



On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 4:29 AM, Martin Desruisseaux <
martin.desruisseaux@geomatys.fr> wrote:

> Hello all
>
> While we are waiting for the wiki (thanks Adam for forwarding the email to
> infra), below is a first draft of an abstract proposal to the Apache
> conference (Denvers, April 7-9). The deadline for submission is Friday
> night, this week. Do peoples feel okay with that?
>
> Submission type: Presentation
>
> Category: Developer
>
> Abstract:
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> Apache Spatial Information System (SIS) is a Java library for developing
> geospatial applications in close conformance with international standards.
> SIS implements interfaces derived from the UML published jointly by the
> Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and the International Organization for
> Standardization (ISO). This presentation will introduce why standards
> matter, OGC vision, the GeoAPI approach, Apache SIS implementation and its
> roadmap. This first SIS presentation will focus on metadata (ISO 19115) and
> referencing by coordinates (ISO 19111). We will give a quick introduction
> to geodesy (did you knew that specifying latitude and longitude is not
> sufficient for uniquely identifying a position on Earth?) and see how
> existing resources can handle part of the complexity for the developers.
>
> Who the audience is and what we expect them to get:
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> The audience is anyone who wish to handle geographic data in their product
> and would like to familiarize with such topic. Attendees can expect a big
> picture of standardization efforts, identify where some of the complexity
> stands and how to hide it. In particular we will compare the impact on
> complexity between using the XSD available on-line or the UML as the source
> for application programming interfaces. Finally, attendees can expect an
> overview of test suites that may help them to increase their confidence in
> the georeferencing performed by their product.
>
> How the content may help better the Apache and open source ecosystem:
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> Geospatial data are ubiquitous, but the difficulty of handling them
> accurately is very often under-estimated. Many applications just handle
> latitudes and longitudes without realizing their ambiguity. This
> presentation will hopefully help to improve awareness about standards,
> encourage participation to implementation-neutral efforts like OGC works
> and GeoAPI interfaces, encourage existing products to test themselves
> against available test suites, and encourage participation to the
> improvement of those implementation-neutral test suites. Then we hope to
> raise interest in Apache SIS as one powerful implementation of the above.
>
> Experience level: intermediate
>
> Technical requirement: screen
>
>