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<p>Dear Peter,</p>
<p>thanks for contacting us in this context. I put your request on
the agenda of our next board meeting, which will take place next
monday. We will then come back to you,</p>
<p><br>
</p>
<p>Regards, Till</p>
<p>- on behalf of OSGeo board -<br>
</p>
<p><br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 23.01.20 um 21:49 schrieb Rushforth,
Peter (NRCan/RNCan):<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt">Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt">My name is Peter Rushforth, and
I’m with the Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth
Observation, at Natural Resources Canada. We are in the
planning stage of a workshop on maps in the Web platform
(HTML), together with the W3C and the OGC. The workshop
will be collocated with the OGC TC meeting, June 15-17
2020 in Montreal, Quebec.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt">I am sending this email to see if
OSGEO might be interested in being invited to participate
(by presenting a short position paper, in person) in this
workshop on the concept of better integrating mapping into
the Web platform standards, and if so, how.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt">The objective of the workshop
will be to start a conversation between the geospatial
(and geospatial standards) community, and the Web platform
community, about how Web standards could better serve the
needs of Web mapping and users of Web maps.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt">Some of the topics of potential
interest include:
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="square">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#333333;mso-list:l0 level1
lfo1"><font size="3" face="Helvetica" color="#333333"><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">a
native map viewer, similar to that provided for video
content<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#333333;mso-list:l0 level1
lfo1"><font size="3" face="Helvetica" color="#333333"><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">standards
for how such a map widget might integrate with map
services and APIs<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#333333;mso-list:l0 level1
lfo1"><font size="3" face="Helvetica" color="#333333"><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Integration
/ relationship of maps and location with other browser
APIs, e.g. geo-video, geolocation API, forms, SVG<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#333333;mso-list:l0 level1
lfo1"><font size="3" face="Helvetica" color="#333333"><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">crawling,
indexing and searching map information<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#333333;mso-list:l0 level1
lfo1"><font size="3" face="Helvetica" color="#333333"><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">standardized
browser elements and APIs<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#333333;mso-list:l0 level1
lfo1"><font size="3" face="Helvetica" color="#333333"><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">CSS
styling of maps and map features<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#333333;mso-list:l0 level1
lfo1"><font size="3" face="Helvetica" color="#333333"><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Map
feature creation / input forms<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#333333;mso-list:l0 level1
lfo1"><font size="3" face="Helvetica" color="#333333"><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">federated
map services with linking<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#333333;mso-list:l0 level1
lfo1"><font size="3" face="Helvetica" color="#333333"><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">accessibility
of browser maps<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#333333;mso-list:l0 level1
lfo1"><font size="3" face="Helvetica" color="#333333"><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">privacy
of user location information<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#333333;mso-list:l0 level1
lfo1"><font size="3" face="Helvetica" color="#333333"><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">security
of browser-based maps<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
</ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt">But mostly, it will be driven by
position papers, and what organizations like your own want
to discuss. We plan on inviting individual projects from
the geospatial and Web platform communities as well, but
if you have questions I am happy to try to answer on list
or off.
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Calibri" color="black"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Cheers,
and thanks<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Calibri" color="black"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Peter<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Calibri" color="black"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Calibri" color="black"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Calibri" color="black"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Peter
Rushforth<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Calibri" color="black"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Calibri" color="black"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Technology
Advisor<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Calibri" color="black"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Canada
Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Calibri" color="black"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Natural
Resources Canada / Government of Canada<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><a
href="mailto:peter.rushforth@canada.ca"
moz-do-not-send="true"><font color="black"><span
style="color:black;background:white" lang="FR-CA">peter.rushforth@canada.ca</span></font></a></span></font><font
color="black"><span
style="color:black;background:white;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"
lang="FR-CA"> / Tel: 613-759-7915<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Calibri" color="black"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;background:white;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"
lang="FR-CA"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Calibri" color="black"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;background:white;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"
lang="FR-CA">Conseiller technique<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Calibri" color="black"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"
lang="FR-CA">Centre canadien de cartographie et
d’observation de la Terre<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Calibri" color="black"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"
lang="FR-CA">Ressources naturelles Canada / Gouvernement
du Canada<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><a
href="mailto:peter.rushforth@canada.ca"
moz-do-not-send="true"><font color="black"><span
style="color:black;background:white" lang="FR-CA">peter.rushforth@canada.ca</span></font></a></span></font><font
color="black"><span
style="color:black;background:white;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"
lang="FR-CA"> / Tél: 613-759-7915<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="FR-CA"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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