(Re-)Introducing Myself

[Greg Reddin <gr...@gmail.com>]

Hi all,

I thought I would re-introduce myself as I hope to get more involved
in the SIS project. I've been mostly a bystander since the project
started. I've been re-thinking much of my life at Apache and paring it
down to a more manageable set of things. I decided to stick with SIS
as it's one of the things I'm really interested in regardless of where
my day job takes me.

I've been interested in this project from the very beginning for many
reasons. I've always loved maps, in general, and GIS technology. I've
always wanted to understand more about the GIS world and I see this as
a way to gain that knowledge. I can see a lot of potential for
applications of SIS. Here are some of my own areas of interest where I
think SIS and related technologies could be very beneficial:

* I'm very involved in city planning, particularly with efforts to
improve alternative transportation options, such as bicycling. I could
see SIS being very useful to provide location-based analytical data
such as barriers, and places where cycling infrastructure could be
very beneficial.

* I'm very fascinated with the weather and like to follow severe
weather as it occurs. I could see SIS being useful to track the
accuracy of weather forecast models as well as to help in ongoing
short-term forecasting and historical analysis of weather trends.

* As an outdoor enthusiast I love route finding and backcountry trekking.

Anyway, there's not much reason to share that other than so all of you
know a bit about where I'm coming from. I've been spending some time
lately familiarizing myself with the code and I hope to start
contributing soon in some fashion.

Thanks,

Greg

Re: (Re-)Introducing Myself

[Suresh Marru <sm...@apache.org>]

Hi Adam,

I am here at Apachecon and met Martin. Will try to find you and Travis as well.

Suresh

On Apr 7, 2014, at 3:05 PM, Adam Estrada <es...@gmail.com> wrote:

> That's Greg and it's great to hear you are coming back! Are you in Denver right now by chance? Me, Martin and Travis are here and would love to meet if you are.
> 
> Adam
> 
>> On Apr 7, 2014, at 2:21 PM, Greg Reddin <gr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I thought I would re-introduce myself as I hope to get more involved
>> in the SIS project. I've been mostly a bystander since the project
>> started. I've been re-thinking much of my life at Apache and paring it
>> down to a more manageable set of things. I decided to stick with SIS
>> as it's one of the things I'm really interested in regardless of where
>> my day job takes me.
>> 
>> I've been interested in this project from the very beginning for many
>> reasons. I've always loved maps, in general, and GIS technology. I've
>> always wanted to understand more about the GIS world and I see this as
>> a way to gain that knowledge. I can see a lot of potential for
>> applications of SIS. Here are some of my own areas of interest where I
>> think SIS and related technologies could be very beneficial:
>> 
>> * I'm very involved in city planning, particularly with efforts to
>> improve alternative transportation options, such as bicycling. I could
>> see SIS being very useful to provide location-based analytical data
>> such as barriers, and places where cycling infrastructure could be
>> very beneficial.
>> 
>> * I'm very fascinated with the weather and like to follow severe
>> weather as it occurs. I could see SIS being useful to track the
>> accuracy of weather forecast models as well as to help in ongoing
>> short-term forecasting and historical analysis of weather trends.
>> 
>> * As an outdoor enthusiast I love route finding and backcountry trekking.
>> 
>> Anyway, there's not much reason to share that other than so all of you
>> know a bit about where I'm coming from. I've been spending some time
>> lately familiarizing myself with the code and I hope to start
>> contributing soon in some fashion.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Greg

Re: (Re-)Introducing Myself

[Greg Reddin <gr...@gmail.com>]

Nope, I wasn't able to make it to ApacheCon. One of these years :-)

Greg

On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 4:05 PM, Adam Estrada <es...@gmail.com> wrote:
> That's Greg and it's great to hear you are coming back! Are you in Denver right now by chance? Me, Martin and Travis are here and would love to meet if you are.
>
> Adam
>
>> On Apr 7, 2014, at 2:21 PM, Greg Reddin <gr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I thought I would re-introduce myself as I hope to get more involved
>> in the SIS project. I've been mostly a bystander since the project
>> started. I've been re-thinking much of my life at Apache and paring it
>> down to a more manageable set of things. I decided to stick with SIS
>> as it's one of the things I'm really interested in regardless of where
>> my day job takes me.
>>
>> I've been interested in this project from the very beginning for many
>> reasons. I've always loved maps, in general, and GIS technology. I've
>> always wanted to understand more about the GIS world and I see this as
>> a way to gain that knowledge. I can see a lot of potential for
>> applications of SIS. Here are some of my own areas of interest where I
>> think SIS and related technologies could be very beneficial:
>>
>> * I'm very involved in city planning, particularly with efforts to
>> improve alternative transportation options, such as bicycling. I could
>> see SIS being very useful to provide location-based analytical data
>> such as barriers, and places where cycling infrastructure could be
>> very beneficial.
>>
>> * I'm very fascinated with the weather and like to follow severe
>> weather as it occurs. I could see SIS being useful to track the
>> accuracy of weather forecast models as well as to help in ongoing
>> short-term forecasting and historical analysis of weather trends.
>>
>> * As an outdoor enthusiast I love route finding and backcountry trekking.
>>
>> Anyway, there's not much reason to share that other than so all of you
>> know a bit about where I'm coming from. I've been spending some time
>> lately familiarizing myself with the code and I hope to start
>> contributing soon in some fashion.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Greg

Re: (Re-)Introducing Myself

[Adam Estrada <es...@gmail.com>]

That's Greg and it's great to hear you are coming back! Are you in Denver right now by chance? Me, Martin and Travis are here and would love to meet if you are.

Adam

> On Apr 7, 2014, at 2:21 PM, Greg Reddin <gr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I thought I would re-introduce myself as I hope to get more involved
> in the SIS project. I've been mostly a bystander since the project
> started. I've been re-thinking much of my life at Apache and paring it
> down to a more manageable set of things. I decided to stick with SIS
> as it's one of the things I'm really interested in regardless of where
> my day job takes me.
> 
> I've been interested in this project from the very beginning for many
> reasons. I've always loved maps, in general, and GIS technology. I've
> always wanted to understand more about the GIS world and I see this as
> a way to gain that knowledge. I can see a lot of potential for
> applications of SIS. Here are some of my own areas of interest where I
> think SIS and related technologies could be very beneficial:
> 
> * I'm very involved in city planning, particularly with efforts to
> improve alternative transportation options, such as bicycling. I could
> see SIS being very useful to provide location-based analytical data
> such as barriers, and places where cycling infrastructure could be
> very beneficial.
> 
> * I'm very fascinated with the weather and like to follow severe
> weather as it occurs. I could see SIS being useful to track the
> accuracy of weather forecast models as well as to help in ongoing
> short-term forecasting and historical analysis of weather trends.
> 
> * As an outdoor enthusiast I love route finding and backcountry trekking.
> 
> Anyway, there's not much reason to share that other than so all of you
> know a bit about where I'm coming from. I've been spending some time
> lately familiarizing myself with the code and I hope to start
> contributing soon in some fashion.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Greg

Re: (Re-)Introducing Myself

[Martin Desruisseaux <ma...@geomatys.fr>]

Le 08/04/14 07:45, Greg Reddin a écrit :
> On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 10:55 PM, Martin Desruisseaux
> <ma...@geomatys.fr> wrote:
>> Would you be interested in looking at the CityGML standard [1], and
>> eventually start an implementation of it? Note that I'm not familiar
>> myself with CityGML, so I do not know if it would be a reasonable plan.
> I would definitely be interested. It may take me more time than usual
> to come up to speed, but I'll take a look at it.

No worry, OGC standards are large and it is normal to take a long while
to catch up (even a full year is not "slow").

As a side note, CityGML is preparing a workshop for urban energy
simulation at Stuttgart:

http://en.wiki.modeling.sig3d.org/index.php/Workshop_Stuttgart_2014

    Martin

Re: (Re-)Introducing Myself

[Greg Reddin <gr...@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 10:55 PM, Martin Desruisseaux
<ma...@geomatys.fr> wrote:
> Would you be interested in looking at the CityGML standard [1], and
> eventually start an implementation of it? Note that I'm not familiar
> myself with CityGML, so I do not know if it would be a reasonable plan.

I would definitely be interested. It may take me more time than usual
to come up to speed, but I'll take a look at it.

> This is also a SIS goal. If you could keep an eye on the Meteorology &
> Oceanography Discussion Working Group [2], that would be very
> appreciated.

Again, I'll have to come up to speed, which may take some time, but
I'll look into it.

Thanks for the pointers.

Greg

Re: (Re-)Introducing Myself

[Martin Desruisseaux <ma...@geomatys.fr>]

Hello Greg, welcome!

Le 07/04/14 14:21, Greg Reddin a écrit :
> * I'm very involved in city planning, particularly with efforts to
> improve alternative transportation options, such as bicycling. I could
> see SIS being very useful to provide location-based analytical data
> such as barriers, and places where cycling infrastructure could be
> very beneficial.

Would you be interested in looking at the CityGML standard [1], and
eventually start an implementation of it? Note that I'm not familiar
myself with CityGML, so I do not know if it would be a reasonable plan.

I think that your interest is also related to OGC "Moving Features"
working group, which has a use case similar to the above transportation
problems. I don't think that there is a public draft of Moving Feature
yet. But since we started to design the SIS Features API recently, I
would like to ensure that it is compatible with Moving Features. So
advise from someone who looked at the subject would be nice.


> * I'm very fascinated with the weather and like to follow severe
> weather as it occurs. I could see SIS being useful to track the
> accuracy of weather forecast models as well as to help in ongoing
> short-term forecasting and historical analysis of weather trends.

This is also a SIS goal. If you could keep an eye on the Meteorology &
Oceanography Discussion Working Group [2], that would be very
appreciated. The group is expressing what they needs for supporting
weather data, and I would like to make sure that SIS meet their needs.
They were recent discussions at OGC about uncertainties in data, which
may be related to your interest in accuracy? If so, a starting point
would be to implement the uncertainties convention in "sis-netcdf"
module, if the standard is mature. The NetCDF format is quite used by
the meteorological and oceanographical communities.

    Regards,

        Martin


[1] http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/citygml
[2] http://external.opengis.org/twiki_public/MetOceanDWG/

Re: (Re-)Introducing Myself

["Mattmann, Chris A (3980)" <ch...@jpl.nasa.gov>]

Great to have you onboard Greg and I think we will benefit much
from your use cases and contributions!

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Instrument Software and Science Data Systems Section (398)
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA
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-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Reddin <gr...@gmail.com>
Reply-To: "dev@sis.apache.org" <de...@sis.apache.org>
Date: Monday, April 7, 2014 1:21 PM
To: "dev@sis.apache.org" <de...@sis.apache.org>
Subject: (Re-)Introducing Myself

>Hi all,
>
>I thought I would re-introduce myself as I hope to get more involved
>in the SIS project. I've been mostly a bystander since the project
>started. I've been re-thinking much of my life at Apache and paring it
>down to a more manageable set of things. I decided to stick with SIS
>as it's one of the things I'm really interested in regardless of where
>my day job takes me.
>
>I've been interested in this project from the very beginning for many
>reasons. I've always loved maps, in general, and GIS technology. I've
>always wanted to understand more about the GIS world and I see this as
>a way to gain that knowledge. I can see a lot of potential for
>applications of SIS. Here are some of my own areas of interest where I
>think SIS and related technologies could be very beneficial:
>
>* I'm very involved in city planning, particularly with efforts to
>improve alternative transportation options, such as bicycling. I could
>see SIS being very useful to provide location-based analytical data
>such as barriers, and places where cycling infrastructure could be
>very beneficial.
>
>* I'm very fascinated with the weather and like to follow severe
>weather as it occurs. I could see SIS being useful to track the
>accuracy of weather forecast models as well as to help in ongoing
>short-term forecasting and historical analysis of weather trends.
>
>* As an outdoor enthusiast I love route finding and backcountry trekking.
>
>Anyway, there's not much reason to share that other than so all of you
>know a bit about where I'm coming from. I've been spending some time
>lately familiarizing myself with the code and I hope to start
>contributing soon in some fashion.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Greg