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<p>Thanks Bruce.</p>
<p>Van, is there anything you require from me to complete the
process? <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 25/7/19 6:08 am, Bruce Bannerman
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<div dir="ltr">Hello Van,</div>
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<div dir="ltr">We would like to nominate Cameron Shorter for our
remaining OGC OSGeo membership.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">Kind regards,</div>
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href="mailto:bruce.bannerman.osgeo@gmail.com"
moz-do-not-send="true">bruce.bannerman.osgeo@gmail.com</a>><br>
<b>Date:</b> 17 July 2019 at 12:15:27 AEST<br>
<b>To:</b> Cameron Shorter <<a
href="mailto:cameron.shorter@gmail.com"
moz-do-not-send="true">cameron.shorter@gmail.com</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> "<a href="mailto:standards@lists.osgeo.org"
moz-do-not-send="true">standards@lists.osgeo.org</a>" <<a
href="mailto:standards@lists.osgeo.org"
moz-do-not-send="true">standards@lists.osgeo.org</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> <b>Re: [OSGeo-Standards] Request of the
OSGeo's OGC Standards membership slot</b><br>
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OK by me Cameron.
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<div class="">As an aside:<br class="">
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<li class="">I have not heard WGS84 referred to as a
dynamic datum before. I do know of several WGS 84
Epochs though. This dynamic datum issue will not be a
simple issue to resolve.</li>
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<li class="">Personally, I don’t believe that it will be
viable for many, many years (if ever) to manage our
data within the context of a dynamic data as is
proposed by some. </li>
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<li class="">As a former spatial data manager with a
data inventory in the PB, I believe that it is just
too impractical currently to use a dynamic datum to
control our vast global holdings and software. </li>
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<li class="">When we consider the widespread, global
ignorance of the need to manage and utilse data within
an appropriate SRS framework, it is an issue that will
not be resolved either easily, or in the short term.</li>
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<div class="">FOR ACTION:</div>
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<div class="">We have one spare OGC Membership slot
avalable currently.</div>
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<div class="">Do we have any objections to Cameron using
this slot?</div>
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<div class="">If so, please advise this list by 1400hr
24th July 2019 UTC and I’ll start a selection process.
If not, I’ll advise OGC of Cameron’s nomination for this
slot.</div>
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<div class="">On 14 Jul 2019, at 08:20, Cameron
Shorter <<a
href="mailto:cameron.shorter@gmail.com" class=""
moz-do-not-send="true">cameron.shorter@gmail.com</a>>
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<div dir="ltr" class="">Hi OSGeo standards folks,
<div class="">I'd like to request access to one
of OSGeo's OGC standards slots. From now until
the end of the year, I'm planning to help
address a problem with web-mapping. </div>
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<div class="">The world is using the dynamic
WGS84 datum as it were static - which is
resulting in map misalignment problems. This
is an international problem, which should be
done with the collaboration of the OGC, and
I'd like to engage within OGC forums as part
of this.</div>
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<div class="">A more detailed description of the
problem is here:</div>
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href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/15uBX2qICODRkiHXeksT0zEy6TuysanIxuc4anV0o5F0"
class="" moz-do-not-send="true">https://docs.google.com/document/d/15uBX2qICODRkiHXeksT0zEy6TuysanIxuc4anV0o5F0</a><br
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Technology Demystifier
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