[Incubator] MobilityDB

[Mahmoud SAKR]

Awesome, thanks Jody !
Thanks also for pointing us to GeoForAll. We will check how to be part of
it.

Best regards,
Mahmoud SAKR


On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 8:48 AM Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com> wrote:

> Good discussion, comments inline:
>
>>
>>>    - photo: do you have a photo of your team?
>>>
>>> Alas we don't have a photo ready, and because of COVID it is difficult
>> to make one now. For now, the section "Who's involved" partially
>> compensates for it, as it lists all developers and PSC members.
>>
>
> I understand, wonder if we are going to have to take screen snaps of video
> chats soon :)
>
>>
>>>    - content / images: looks good, usually we put a border on the
>>>    images (like a laptop or browser window)
>>>
>>> Because MobilityDB is a database system, it doesn't have visual
>> components. We visualize the data and the query results in any PostgreSQL
>> client (pgAdmin, QGIS, etc). For instance, the images in this section are
>> done in QGIS. We avoid using the client interface as a border, because it
>> could be misleading. Readers may wrongly think that MobilityDB is part of
>> QGIS, for example.
>>
>
> Understood, I should probably make a simple black frame for this kind of
> use. Thanks for the background.
>
>
>>>    - project type / topic / level 1 / level 2: this information is
>>>    needed if your project is to be found on the website choose a project
>>>    <https://www.osgeo.org/choose-a-project/> guide
>>>
>>> Done.
>>
>
> Thanks that is working great, I was able to find your project.
>
>>
>>>    - standards / development : please fill in
>>>
>>> We would have liked to see in the list:
>> - ISO19141 Geographic information — Schema for moving features (
>> https://www.iso.org/standard/41445.html).
>> - OGC Moving Features (https://www.ogc.org/standards/movingfeatures)
>> For now, we choose OGC, without a specific standard.
>>
>
> I think you can add new standards as you go? I will add those two for you
> now....
>
> MobilityDB is mainly developed and supported by an academic team in
>> Universite Libre de Bruxelles (ULB). Would this qualify ULB to be a service
>> provider ? Otherwise, there is no service provider yet.
>>
>
> OSGeo has the idea of GeoForAll Labs for academic and research teams. Is
> your team part of GeoForAll?
>
>>
>>>    - communication:  any twitter, stack exachange tag, anything?
>>>
>>> Thanks for insisting. We have created a twitter account. Indeed so far
>> we are not active on social media, but we should. (
>> https://twitter.com/mobilitydb)
>>
>
> Nice work! Even just for releases and stuff it is helpful.
>
>
>> Thanks. We are so happy that you like it !
>>>
>>
> :)
>
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