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<h1><span class="trail"><a href="/2005/Incubator/">Incubator Activity</a>
> W3C Geospatial Incubator Group</span></h1>
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<p>2007-10-31: The XG is now closed.</p>
<p>2007-10-31: The XG has published two XGRs:
<a href="XGR-geo-20071023/">Geospatial Vocabulary</a>
and
<a href="XGR-geo-ont-20071023/">Geospatial Ontologies</a>.</p>
<p>2006-07-05: Geospatial XG launched (public <a
href="/News/2006#item122">W3C news</a>, Member only <a
href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-ac-members/2006JulSep/0000">Call
for Participation</a>)</p>
<p>August 2006: Geospatial group has begun work on the Geo vocabulary update
with materials from <a href="http://www.georss.org">GeoRSS</a></p>
<p>2006-11-6: <a
href="http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/partnerships/research/research/terracognita.html">Terra
Cognita</a> workshop at <a
href="http://iswc2006.semanticweb.org/">ISWC'2006</a> considers topics, work
items, and follow-on activities for this Geospatial Incubator Group</p>
<p>2006-11-17: Geospatial XG <a href="F2F/20061117.html">workshop</a> to be
held at MIT</p>
<p>2006-12-7: Discussion of coordination between the Geospatial XG and the
new Spatial Ontology Community of Practice (<a
href="http://www.visualknowledge.com/wikikey/A142033S3496911">SOCoP</a>)</p>
<p>2006-12-12: F2F Meeting to be held (session of the Information Communities
and Semantics Working Group) at the <a
href="http://www.opengeospatial.org/event/0612tc">OGC Technical Committee
Meeting</a> in San Diego</p>
<p>2007-02-25: There is a new draft of the Geo vocabulary update (<a
href="http://mapbureau.com/neogeo/neogeo.owl">neogeo</a>) for review and soon
to be a draft Note. Group members and other interested parties are encouraged
to review and comment on this in the <a
href="http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/geo/Wiki/Geo_Update">Geo Update wiki
page</a>.</p>
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<p>1. <a href="XGR-geo-20071023/">Geospatial Vocabulary</a></p>
<p>2. <a href="XGR-geo-ont-20071023/">Geospatial Ontologies</a></p>
<p>3. <a href="./GeoWGCharter.html">Draft Geospatial WG charter</a></p>
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<p>Collaborative work on the group's deliverables is documented in the <a
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<p>2006.11.6: <a
href="http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/partnerships/research/research/terracognita.html">Terra
Cognita Workshop</a></p>
<p>2006.11.17: F2F Meeting and <a href="F2F/20061117.html">Workshop</a> at
MIT Stata Center</p>
<p>2006.12.12: F2F Meeting at the <a
href="http://www.opengeospatial.org/event/0612tc">OGC Technical Committee
Meeting</a> in San Diego</p>
<p>2007.3.7: F2F Meeting opportunity at the <a
href="http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/712/">European Geonformatics
Workshop</a> in Edinburgh</p>
<p>2007.4.16: F2F Meeting at the <a
href="http://www.opengeospatial.org/event/0704tc">OGC Technical Committee
Meeting</a> in Ottawa</p>
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<h3>Weekly teleconference</h3>
<p>A weekly teleconference is held for this group on the Zakim teleconference
bridge:</p>
<h3>IRC Channel #geoxg</h3>
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<p><a href="minutes/20061030.html">30 October 2006</a></p>
<p><a href="minutes/20061113.html">13 November 2006</a></p>
<p><a href="minutes/20061120.html">20 November 2006</a></p>
<p><a href="minutes/20061211.html">11 December 2006</a></p>
<p><a href="minutes/20061218.html">18 December 2006</a></p>
<p><a href="minutes/20070122.html">22 January 2007</a></p>
<p><a href="minutes/20070226.html">26 February 2007</a></p>
<h2><a name="About" id="About" shape="rect">About the Geospatial XG</a></h2>
<p class="mission">The <strong>mission</strong> of the <a
href="http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/geo/">Geospatial Incubator Group</a>,
part of the <a href="http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/">Incubator
Activity</a>, is to begin addressing issues of location and geographical
properties of resources for the Web of today and tomorrow, by taking a
concrete step to update the W3C GEO vocabulary, laying the groundwork for a
more comprehensive geospatial ontology, and formulating a proposal for a W3C
Local Web working group to develop recommendations to further the Local
Web.</p>
<p>Location and geographical properties of resources has always been
something of a dilemma for the World Wide Web, which has served so well to
unlink the global identity of a resource from its physical location on the
globe. One of the Web's greatest values is its capacity for enabling the
growth of communities which are not constrained by distance and geography.
Nonetheless, physical location is at least an essential property if not a
part of the identity of any real entity. When appropriate, the Local Web of
resources identified by location and geography is an essential aspect of Web
discovery and communication.</p>
<p>Issues in geographical representation are many and often parallel those in
the Web as a whole, from resource identifiers to machine-readable semantics.
Just as there are both physical (IP) and conceptual (domain namespace)
locators on the World Wide Web, there are physical (latitude-longitude
coordinates and street addresses) and conceptual (placenames and political
divisions) locators on the Local Web. Geospatial concepts and relationships
are at once as possible and difficult to define with formal semantics as
those which express any other resource meaning. Geospatial aspects of
progress from the Web of text and tags to the Semantic Web are just as
challenging and important.</p>
<p>There are, however, unique aspects to the geospatial representation of
information which merit special attention in the advancement of the Web as a
whole. The map is not the terrain; a geographic coordinate pair is only a
terse representation of a geographical entity. Something as simple as a
geotagged Web page “a representation of a representation“ raises
unresolved semantic, syntactic, and engineering issues which have until now
hindered full development of the Local Web. Yet another set of issues is
raised by the fact that it is not always desirable or “safe“ for
world to know where a resource lives. Some of the gateways from the World
Wide Web to the Local Web require gates and gatekeepers.</p>
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<address>
<a href="mailto:jlieberman@traversetechnologies.com" shape="rect">Joshua
Lieberman</a>, Geospatial Incubator Group Chair <br />
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