LocationTech is designed to help broaden adoption of location aware technologies and was launched formally on Tuesday, February 5th, 2013. The group has chosen 4 areas of focus to start:
- Storage and processing of massive data volume
- Model driven design
- Desktop, Web, and mobile mapping
- Real time analysis of business critical data
At great risk of forgetting people, our grattitude to those who made contributions large and small to make this possible: Xavier Lopez, Jody Garnett, Dave McIlhagga, Mike Milinkovich, Chris Holmes, Craig Statchuk, Eddie Pickle, Dave Sonnen, Geoff Zeiss, Jason Weathersby, Joe Francica, Tim Schaub, Peter Batty, Erdal Karaca, Andrea Antonello, Benjamin Cabé, Steven Feldman, Amos Hayes, Fraser Taylor, Angela Demke-Brown, Heather Leson, Paul Spencer, Richard Weait, Matthew Ford, Wayne Beaton, Nathan Gervais, Alex Trofast, Emma Jane Hogbin, Michael Gerlek, Alex Barth, Eric Gundersen, Vladimir Agafonkin, Ian Skerrett, Janet Campbell, Sharon Corbett, Tyler Mitchell, Thierry Badard, Philip Bogdan, Frank Gasdorf, Cameron Shorter, Tim Astle, Michael Smith, Thanh Ha, Christopher Guindon, Anne Jacko, Daniel Morisette, and Frank Warmerdam. With a start like this, only good things can come!
Special thanks to our founding members whose generous support has been so instrumental: OpenGeo, Oracle, and IBM. And to Actuate.
Extra special thanks to our inaugural co-chairs: Xavier Lopez (Oracle) and Craig Statchuk (IBM).
You can get involved too by joining our discussion list.