GeoSPARQL Standards Working Group Meeting Minutes

Meeting Details

Meeting Date: 04/30/2025
Meeting Time: 2005–2050
Meeting Location: Microsoft Teams

Note: No quorum was present.

Attendees

Attendee Moniker
Matthew Perry MP
Arkadiusz Chadzynski AC
Timo Homburg TH

Apologies

  • Paul Cripps (PC)

Absent

  • Nicholas Car (NC)
  • Joseph Abhayaratna (JA)

Note Takers

  • JA

Action Items From Last Meetings

Done? Item Responsible Due Date
⬜ Follow up with Anthony Cohn PC Carried forward

Discussion Items

Time Item Who Notes
20:05 Roll call and call for patents All
  • Roll call completed.
  • No patents declared.
20:08 Other updates TH, AC
  • TH provided an update on the GeoSPARQL 3D white paper.
  • Section in progress on BIM and IFC.
  • Contributors assigned to sections and GitHub issues created.
  • Ph.D. student working on GeoSPARQL 3D requirements.
  • AC advised the 3D function table is being added to the white paper, to be placed in the capabilities section.
  • Issues noted: function URI vs preferred name; some functions missing from functions.ttl.
  • Discussion on whether to list only GeoSPARQL functions present in spatial databases or also those not present.
  • AC reported no movement on separation of appearance ontology since last meeting.
20:29 PRs All
  • PR discussed: https://github.com/opengeospatial/ogc-geosparql/pull/614 — open issues discussed; updates made in PR comments.
  • PR discussed: https://github.com/opengeospatial/ogc-geosparql/pull/616 — naming ambiguities discussed; updates made in PR comments.
20:40 Issues All
  • Issue discussed: https://github.com/opengeospatial/ogc-geosparql/issues/619 — typo in SHACL shape for geo:dggsLiteral; TH to raise a PR.
  • Issue discussed: https://github.com/opengeospatial/ogc-geosparql/issues/617 — TH to raise a PR.
20:45 Previous actions All
  • Carry‑over actions reviewed.
  • NC to follow up with Rob Atkinson on review of 3D primitives; Rob currently on leave, follow‑up planned upon return.
  • RCC25: Wiki created to collect papers; AC to add existing database (PostGIS, SpatialLite, H2GIS) functions.
20:49 Other business All
  • Discussion on priorities moving forward: white paper vs specification.
  • Consensus that the white paper is the shorter task and should be completed first.
  • 3D white paper repository referenced: https://github.com/opengeospatial/geosparql3dwhitepaper
  • TH working on auto‑generation of specification from CSV for CRS working group: https://github.com/opengeospatial/ontology-crs
20:50 Close All MEETING ENDS

Action Items

# Item Responsible Due Date
1 Follow up with Anthony Cohn (no response so far) PC Carried forward