Call for Participation in SVG Mapping Community Group

W3C has launched the SVG Mapping Community Group

The mission of SVG Mapping Community Group (SVGMapCG) is to build
requirements for SVG based Web Mapping through a discussion of use cases
regarding map services.

One of the key technologies for SVG Web Mapping is dynamic Tiling &
Layering, which realizes zoom and pan display of maps in an efficient
manner. The other technologies for the mapping (e.g. Shared Path,
Vector Effects and etc.) are also necessary. Although these
functionalities will be standardized as part of SVG 2 in SVG WG, the
focus of discussion is for general use and the discussion may lack
particular aspects for map services.

Therefore, our main scope is to investigate whether these generic
functions are enough or not to resolve challenges inherent in mapping,
and to provide WGs (e.g. SVG and Geolocation) feedback from our
observation. Envisioned issues for Web Mapping are a common coordinate
system for map contents and a projection.
Another issue is a relationship to other GIS communities (OpenLayers,
Open Street Map, WMS, and etc.) outside W3C. They have developed
map-related standards and frameworks, and we need to clarify our
interrelationship and consider collaboration if necessary.

In order to join the group, you will need a W3C account.

This group was originally proposed on 2012-10-18 by Satoru Takagi. The following people supported its creation: Satoru Takagi, Tomoaki Konno, Daniel Kastl, koichi takagi, Hal Seki.

If you believe that there is an issue with this group that requires the attention of the W3C staff, please send us email on site-comments@w3.org

Thank you,
W3C Community Development Team