GeoSPARQL Standards Working Group Meeting Minutes

Meeting Details

Meeting Date: 10/01/2025
Meeting Time: 2005–2042
Meeting Location: Microsoft Teams

Note: No quorum was present.

Attendees

Attendee Moniker
Joseph Abhayaratna JA
Timo Homburg TH
Nicholas Car NC
Matthew Perry MP

Apologies

  • Paul Cripps (PC)

Note Takers

  • Matthew Perry

Action Items From Last Meetings

| Done? | Item | Responsible | Due Date | | —- | —- | —- | — |

Discussion Items

Time Item Who Notes
20:05 Roll call and call for patents All
  • Roll call completed.
  • No patents declared.
20:15 General discussion JA
  • JA reported that two documents for EWKB normative reference work have been sent to Scott and are ready to proceed to public comment.
20:15 Issues All
  • Issue discussed: https://github.com/opengeospatial/ogc-geosparql/issues/637
  • PC to review the issue.
20:23 Other topics TH, PC
  • New repository for vocabularies identified: https://github.com/opengeospatial/geosemantics-vocabs
  • TH working on a 3D example.
  • PC reported a meeting with Anthony Cohn.
  • Positive feedback that RCC is being used in GeoSPARQL.
  • Interest expressed in compiling a list of implementations.
  • View expressed that RCC9 work will likely suffice for 3D and cover most use cases.
  • Relevant paper referenced: https://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/13/1/25
  • TH proposed next steps to extract property definitions for RCC9 relations.
  • TH suggested examining how RCC9 relates to Simple Features relations and whether new SF relations are needed.
  • PC advised he would be out of the country until November.
  • PC noted GeoSPARQL has been integrated into the information exchange standard.
20:42 Close All MEETING ENDS

Action Items

# Item Responsible Due Date
1 Develop a 3D example TH