[Ica-osgeo-labs] CitySmart/SmartCity Road Map: 'The Challenge'

[Suchith Anand]

Patrick, many thanks for the Road Map Challenge to take this forward.  "Open Cities - Guiding Principles" will be great basis for everyone interested to collaborate and build upon ideas specific to their use cases.  Seeing the expertise of the people who have expressed interest in working on this common theme, it is good momentum. 

Let me thank all the presenters and participants for of our yesterday's meeting (both who were present in venue and online) and to Chris for chairing this session. It is really appropriate that we build stronger synergies with the work  being done by colleagues in Big Data theme for this. Thanks to Sven, Didier, Chris, Mark, Peter for their excellent presentation and sharing ideas.

Sven- your last slide on what should the two groups focus for synergies (technical, social,policy...) was thought provoking.  Pity we did not get time to discuss this . Let us discuss ideas on this over mail as this is key for thinking for future work ideas.  

The session was recorded , so we will be able to send the url of the recording to others who were not able to attend also.

So thanks all and this meeting has been a good start to get our ideas together.The main problem i realised was we had only less than 30 minutes for the  Q& A and discussions, so it was not possible to get time for everyone to get opportunity to discuss thier ideas, so please use the email to inform your ideas/proposals, so we can move ideas forward.

Best wishes,

Suchith


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From: ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX) [patrick.hogan at nasa.gov]
Sent: Monday, March 09, 2015 11:41 PM
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Subject: [Ica-osgeo-labs] CitySmart/SmartCity Road Map: 'The Challenge'

OSGeo GeoForAll Folks,

We had a nice joint-session today of the OSGeo GeoForAll ‘movers and shakers’ orienting mostly to ‘what’s needed.’
https://rd-alliance.org/ig-geospatial-p5-joint-session.html

It looks like we have needs to do big analytics on big data. This is not ^new^ news and ‘yet we have yet’ to find the rally point where we actually begin to move forward together. This is the purpose of our Road Map Challenge. And what do we all have in common? We all need to see pixels show up when and where we want them, the geospatial visualization medium, the picture that speaks a thousand words. For spatial data this means a dynamic virtual globe, and for OSGeo, FOSS4G and the scientific research community, this also means open source! Something we all collectively own.

We need a ‘Road Map’ for that open source virtual globe platform (the app).  And, if this app had an API for the menu system, it would allow anyone to build whatever functionality they desired and essentially ‘drop-it-in.’ The immediate ‘global’ benefit of this is that it will also greatly facilitate sharing of those functionalities. And for the open functionalities versus the proprietary one (yes, both are allowed), these functionalities could be continually advanced by the global community, as would the platform itself.

Cities need urban management tools! Not surprisingly, most city needs are quite similar in nature. So, this is an exciting opportunity to serve our own interests, that of each city, and yet by doing so, also collectively serve the interests of a global community. In this way each forward step one of us makes moves us all move forward together.

I have added a base set of requirements to the ‘Road Map Challenge’ for those who might wonder what ‘basic’ virtual globe requirements look like:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_UrbanScience_CityAnalytics#CitySmart.2FSmartCity_Road_Map:_.27The_Challenge.27

We dare any group who wants to win the Crystal Bull (see it here, http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/) to take up this challenge, or forever sit on the sideline waiting for something good to happen. Please just let Chris or myself know that you are ‘in’ and that you plan to deliver your Road Map Challenge requirements document, with your CitySmart standard-features and use-cases defined, by May 30.

Thanks much,
-Patrick




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