[Incubator] MobilityDB

[Johan Van de Wauw]

Mahmoud,

Definitely check with Moritz Lennert. Their institute (igeat, also ULB)
might already be part of geo4all.

Kind regards,
Jihan

On Fri, Aug 21, 2020, 09:36 Mahmoud SAKR <mahmoud.sakr at ulb.ac.be> wrote:

> 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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