GeoSPARQL Standards Working Group Meeting Minutes
Meeting Details
Meeting Date: 08/20/2025
Meeting Time: 2005–2038
Meeting Location: Microsoft Teams
Note: No quorum was present.
Attendees
| Attendee |
Moniker |
| Joseph Abhayaratna |
JA |
| Timo Homburg |
TH |
| Arkadiusz Chadzynski |
AC |
| Matthew Perry |
MP |
Apologies
- Nicholas Car (NC)
- Paul Cripps (PC)
Note Takers
Action Items From Last Meetings
| Done? |
Item |
Responsible |
Due Date |
| ⬜ |
Follow up with ISO style contact |
Nicholas Car |
Carried forward |
Discussion Items
| Time |
Item |
Who |
Notes |
| 20:05 |
Roll call and call for patents |
All |
- Roll call completed.
- No patents declared.
|
| 20:07 |
Previous actions |
JA |
- JA to follow up with Scott Simmons regarding Extended WKB and ISO standard style expert.
- OGC has all required information and is awaiting documents.
- Vote required to submit EWKB documents.
- Contact made with Anthony Cohn; meeting to be arranged.
- Anthony Cohn’s work to be considered (noted in issues #416 and #518).
|
| 20:12 |
Extended WKB document |
JA |
- JA to initiate an email vote for submission to OGC TC.
|
| 20:20 |
Any PRs |
All |
- EWKB Community Standard Work Item first draft reviewed and approved by MP.
- TH to review after the meeting.
|
| 20:24 |
Issues |
JA |
- Issue raised to add a homepage to the GitHub project description.
- JA updated project metadata and closed the issue.
|
| 20:28 |
Other topics |
All |
- Texture ontology and JavaScript demo for Wouter Beek discussed.
- AC to work on the texture ontology and demo.
- Status update on TH’s work on GeoSPARQL 1.1 benchmark queries.
- TH reported work is still in progress.
|
| 20:38 |
Close |
All |
MEETING ENDS |
Action Items
| # |
Item |
Responsible |
Due Date |
| 1 |
Follow up with Anthony Cohn |
PC |
Carried forward |
| 2 |
Follow up with Scott Simmons regarding Extended WKB and ISO standard style expert |
JA |
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