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LocationTech/May22 2012
This meeting takes place at the Location Intelligence Conference, May 22-23, 2012 - Washington, D.C.
Time and Location
Tuesday, May 22, 2012 @ 1pm EDT - Room is behind AGSI/table B on the Map.
Attendees
The following people attended:
- Andrew Ross - Eclipse Foundation
- Dave McIlhagga, Paul Spencer - DM Solutions Group
- Xavier Lopez - Oracle
- Chris Holmes, Eddie Pickle - OpenGeo
- Geoff Zeiss - Autodesk
- Thierry Badard, Luc Vaillancourt - Spatialytics
- Michael P. Gerlek (mpg) - OSGeo, Flaxen Consulting
- Phil Bogdan - RadiantBlue (2nd half due to speaking conflict)
Regrets sent:
- Justin Lokitz - Autodesk
Absent:
- Tyler Mitchell - Actian
- Craig Statchuk - IBM
Minutes
This meeting is for those interested in the Location Industry Working group forming at Eclipse.
- Quick row call [5 minutes]
- Vision/Mission/Roadmap/Charter - All [60 minutes]
- The group decided to focus on a well thought out architecture in specific areas rather than collect just any Location based project.
- The group decided on 4 focus areas: 1) Desktop, Mobile, and Web Mapping 2) Data capture, processing, and exchange 3) Aggregating data from diverse sources 4) Model based design
- The group decided to focus on re-usable libraries at first.
- The group decided EPL as a default/recommended license made sense given it's business-friendly attributes.
- The group discussed some of the focus areas and project ideas. Notable was 1) A project based on hadoop 2) A project enabling BIM 3) A project enable geo-processing in web technologies
- Introduction to PDAL - Michael P. Gerlek [20 minutes]
- Relationship with OSGeo - Michael P. Gerlek [30 minutes]
- Next Steps/ Next month's call [5 minutes]
Next meeting:
- Technology survey
- Projects: uDig, GeoScript, JackPine