On geolocation, sensors and international standards

[Dr. Michael Paus]

Hi,
I'd very much appreciate such an effort. It seems we are working in a 
similar area :-)
Michael

Am 27.02.2012 16:59, schrieb Martin Desruisseaux:
> Hello all
>
> This is my first post on the JavaFX mailing list. To present myself 
> briefly, I'm doing Java programming since 1997. Before that, I have 
> done 7 years of C/C++ and a bit of Fortran, MatLab and assembler.
>
> In the "/New Features Proposed for JavaFX/" section from the 
> http://javafx.com/roadmap/ page, we can read "/New UI controls, 
> including (...) Map control are under consideration/" and "/JavaFX 
> will incorporate support for on-device sensors, including (...) 
> geo-location/". I have also read about a JavaFX demo running on mobile 
> device in a previous JavaOne meeting. Some members (including myself) 
> from the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) are very interested in those 
> geo-location and sensor eventualities - while I understand it is not 
> yet committed plan.
>
> The Open Geospatial Consortium (http://www.opengeospatial.org) is an 
> international industry consortium of 444 companies, government 
> agencies and universities participating in a consensus process to 
> develop publicly available interface standards. OGC Standards support 
> interoperable solutions that "geo-enable" the Web, wireless and 
> location-based services and mainstream IT. Oracle is a principal 
> member of OGC and has been a key player in the development of ISO 
> 19107 (spatial geometry schema) among others.
>
> The GeoAPI project (http://www.geoapi.org) is an OGC working group 
> that translate the OGC/ISO specifications into Java interfaces, and 
> interpret those standards in an effort to meet the expectation of Java 
> developers (naming conventions, integration with existing JDK API, 
> etc.). In addition, the GeoAPI project provides a test suite allowing 
> any GeoAPI implementations to run parts of the Geospatial Integrity of 
> Geoscience Software tests (http://www.epsg.org/gigs.html) and some 
> other tests.
>
> I suspect that JavaFX is aiming for something simpler than OGC/ISO 
> standards. However, I wonder if it could be done as a profile of 
> existing international standards, in collaboration with OGC working 
> groups. I have been asked to modularize GeoAPI, and would be happy to 
> work in collaboration with any JavaFX developer working on Map or 
> Sensor API. Oracle has a strong vote power at OGC, since John Herring 
> (an Oracle employee) is presents to most meetings.
>
> If there is any interest for JavaFX/OGC join work, maybe a possible 
> approach would be to create a wiki page where some peoples list the 
> desired functionality for Map and Sensor controls, and myself listing 
> the elements from OGC/ISO standards that aim to provide those 
> functionality? Then the complexity of those elements would be 
> evaluated, and an eventually simplified profile proposed - trying to 
> keep extension points so that users who need the full functionality 
> (e.g. map projections) can still get it.
>
> As a side note, some of those OGC/ISO standards become European laws 
> through the INSPIRE program. While a fully INSPIRE-compliant API is 
> probably out of scope for JavaFX, I think that a JavaFX API consistent 
> with the most basic OGC/ISO elements would have great value.
>
> Any though?
>
>     Regards
>
>         Martin Desruisseaux
>


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