{"id":203,"date":"2026-09-10T12:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T12:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/maps4html\/?p=203"},"modified":"2026-09-10T12:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T12:10:08","slug":"what-if-the-map-itself-became-the-web-hyper-layering-at-sotm-asia-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/maps4html\/2026\/09\/10\/what-if-the-map-itself-became-the-web-hyper-layering-at-sotm-asia-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"What if the Map itself became the Web? \u2014 Hyper-Layering at SotM Asia 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On September 7, 2026, I gave a keynote at <strong>State of the Map Asia 2026 in Osaka<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The title was:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What if the Map itself became the Web?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The talk looks back at the thirty-year journey of <strong>Hyper-Layering Architecture (HLA)<\/strong>, from its origins in 1995 to its current implementation as <strong>Layers as Web Apps<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The central idea is simple: instead of collecting and integrating information into a central system, independent Web resources can remain independent while users compose them together as map layers in the browser.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The keynote demonstrates this approach with real-world systems, disaster information, thematic mapping, different map projections, QuadTree Composite Tiling, and client-side spatial operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It also looks ahead to <strong>HLA 3.0<\/strong> and the possibility of bringing hyper-layering into the Web itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And, of course, OpenStreetMap plays an important role in this story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>OpenStreetMap made the map open. What comes next?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Perhaps we can build an <strong>Open Map Web<\/strong> on top of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Watch the keynote<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The complete keynote, including the demonstration, slides,  is available here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/svgmap.github.io\/presentations\/SOTMasia2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><strong>SotM Asia 2026 \u2014 What if the Map itself became the Web?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If this direction interests you, please join the <strong>W3C Maps for HTML Community Group<\/strong> and join the discussion about the future of maps on the Web.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On September 7, 2026, I gave a keynote at State of the Map Asia 2026 in Osaka. The title was: What if the Map itself became the Web? The talk looks back at the thirty-year journey of Hyper-Layering Architecture (HLA), &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/maps4html\/2026\/09\/10\/what-if-the-map-itself-became-the-web-hyper-layering-at-sotm-asia-2026\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/maps4html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/maps4html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/maps4html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/maps4html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/maps4html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/maps4html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/maps4html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions\/205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/maps4html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/maps4html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/maps4html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}