Hello all The ApacheCon North America will have a geospatial track [1] leads by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) for the third year. Unfortunately I will not be able to attend that ApacheCon, but I would be interested in helping to prepare a talk if someone else volunteers. The talk could be an introduction to the recent advancements in referencing by coordinates (new conceptual model published conjointly by ISO and OGC, and its representation in Well Known Text format) and its implementation in open source projects. In particular the GDAL/PROJ community raised $144,000 for upgrading their library [2] and completed their work recently. The talk could do a comparison of GDAL/PROJ with Apache SIS and possibly other open source projects. Having this talk done by someone else than me could actually be an advantage for giving a more neutral perspective in this comparison. Interoperability between those libraries via GeoAPI would also be discussed.
The deadline for submitting a talk is next Monday (May 13th). The ApacheCon is in Las Vegas in September. Is anyone interested in doing such talk? I would help her/him to prepare the abstract to submit on Monday and the slides for September. I may reuse that material myself for ApacheCon Europe (Berlin) in October. Martin [1] https://blogs.apache.org/conferences/entry/the-open-geospatial-consortium-lads [2] https://gdalbarn.com/
