The Maps in HTML Community Group seeks to establish at least one hypermedia type which can be considered to be consumed by a (new) "map" element for HTML. Follow-on from Bar Camp at #lgd14. The objective will be to define a hypermedia type which can be linked to from a hypothetical (but prototyped in Web Components) "map" or (geo-map for Web Components) element which will provide simple mashup capabilities and user interface.
This group will publish specifications.
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| date | name | commitments |
|---|---|---|
| Report on the Joint W3C-OGC Workshop on Maps for the Web | Licensing commitments |
| name |
|---|
| Use Cases and Requirements for Standardizing Web Maps |
| The HTML map element proposal |
| Map Markup Language |
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New post today about the GeoWeb here. The topic is the intersection of interests of the Web and Web mapping communities, and so can be a bit hard to think about because you have to put yourself (in most cases) in the other person’s shoes.
Please send your feedback via the Web Incubator Community Group forum.
There is a new Maps4HTML organization on GitHub, dedicated to the use of the Maps For HTML Community Group. Every member of this Community Group has received an invitation to join the members team on that organization. Members can create repos associated to the organization.
A key factor in the success of any Web standard is community. To that end, if you accept the invitation to join the Maps4HTML community on GitHub, please consider making that fact public. Your presence on the front page of the organization will help drive other interested people and companies to join us.
The objective of the Maps4HTML organization on Github is to help us collaborate not just on ideas, but on actual specification and implementations of those ideas. You will find a few repos already there which may help stimulate more ideas and prototyping. Go for(k) it!
Please feel free to discuss existing repos either as issues or on the Web Incubator Community Group Discourse forum for Web mapping. Demonstrating community support for a standard is as important as specifications and implementations.
Let’s get the geo-Web moving again!
Standards are hard. Just ask anyone who has been in the trenches of standards organizations working for the Web. Getting agreement on technical subjects requires a lot of effort, on the part of individuals and organizations. The broader in scope the intended standard, the greater is the requirement for simple, clear language, meaning and function. Importantly, the greater is the requirement for diverse community input, if not agreement.
The Web Incubator Community Group (WICG) was created from the successful experience of the Responsive Images Community Group, in order to facilitate broader contribution to the development of Web standards that respond to community needs.
Realizing that mailing lists are not always the most productive environment in which to develop standards, the WICG hosts a discussion resource for the Web standards community based on the Discourse platform, and they have graciously accepted to host a category dedicated to Web mapping for the use of our and related communities.
The Maps For HTML Community Group is dedicated to the development of Web standards which support Web mapping, which with your help, will lead to integration of maps into the Web platform.
Please join us, and contribute to the grassroots of the Web mapping standards development process!
A new document discussing the use cases and requirements for Web maps is available for review and feedback. Please review and discuss on the public-maps4html@w3.org list.
— Peter
The Maps For HTML Community Group has been launched:
Let’s Share What We Know About Where We Live.
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