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This industry working group is governed by the [http://www.eclipse.org/org/industry-workgroups/industry_wg_process.php Eclipse Foundation Industry Working Group Process] document. You can also [http://www.eclipse.org/org/ read more about the Eclipse Foundation].
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=Location Industry Working Group=
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This is an initial landing page for the Location Industry Working Group (IWG) at Eclipse. The site is moving to [http://locationtech.org locationtech.org] in November 2012.
  
The Location Industry Working Group (IWG) is a partnership between companies with a strong interest in location technologies.
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'''This page is no longer being maintained and is available purely for archive reasons. Please visit http://locationtech.org'''
  
Location technology is technology for tracking, analysing, and visualizing data expressing relative location measured in some dimensions.
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This industry working group is governed by the [http://www.eclipse.org/org/industry-workgroups/industry_wg_process.php Eclipse Foundation Industry Working Group Process] document. You can also [http://www.eclipse.org/org/ read more about the Eclipse Foundation].
 
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The IWG is currently forming and is expected to formally launch Q3-2012. This date may change due to strong interest.
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==Initiative Goals==
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This IWG exists to enable organizations to:
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# Collaborate on location related research
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# Share costs, risks, and benefits to develop and sustain reusable commodity & innovative location technology
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# Drive increased adoption of location technology, and adoption of reference implementation standards based technology
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# Participate in joint marketing, events
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==Get Involved==
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===Participate in the Discussions===
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[https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/location-iwg Join the discussion list]
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[http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/location-iwg/ View the discussion list archives]
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Participate in IWG calls (see the Roadmap below for call dates and times)
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===Edit this wiki===
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Register for an Eclipse account and contribute to this wiki page
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===Recruit===
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If you know others that would be interested, invite them to this page and the discussion list.
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==Areas of Interest==
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* Software/libraries for processing big data with location elements
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* Very high performance processing of location data
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* Building Information Modelling (BIM)
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* Evolution of the spatial database
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* Data exchange standards
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==Lead projects==
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The Location IWG will provide a forge (code repository, bug tracker, build farm, etc.) for related technology. The following are projects that plan to host in this facility.
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* [http://udig.refractions.net/ uDig - A GIS Framework for Eclipse]
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* [http://www.eclipse.org/stem/ STEM - The Spatiotemporal Epidemiological Modeler]
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==Roadmap==
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The following is tentative roadmap.
 
  
* Inaugural conference call - March 2012 (Date TBD)
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* Conference call - April 2012 (Date TBD)
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* Face to face meeting - May 2012 @ [http://www.locationintelligence.net/ Location Intelligence Conference] in Washington D.C.
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* Create IWG Charter - June 2012
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* Identify inaugural chair
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* Identify initiating member(s)
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* Formal Launch - August 2012
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Latest revision as of 09:42, 14 August 2013

LocationTech Logo 500.png

This is an initial landing page for the Location Industry Working Group (IWG) at Eclipse. The site is moving to locationtech.org in November 2012.

This page is no longer being maintained and is available purely for archive reasons. Please visit http://locationtech.org

This industry working group is governed by the Eclipse Foundation Industry Working Group Process document. You can also read more about the Eclipse Foundation.

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