Article:		Tomorrow's Web Today
Subject:		Tomorrow's Web Today
Date:		2004-06-11 15:08:32
From:		Carl Reed
Not too fanciful at all.. Let's take your scenario a but farther. I work for the OpenGIS Consortium. Our members develop standards for the geospatial (GIS) world. We are leveraging the power of XML, WSDL, SOAP and so forth in an area we call OGC Web Services. With this as background, we can now extend your scenario to incorporate map data (geospatial). Now that I have my tickets, I ask Barry to determine the best navigation route from my house to the theatre. I want to driver through Trafalgar Square for romantic reasons. And Barry, please display and print with directions on my home computer and also download to my car's navigation system. So, the Barry can access a navigation service via UDDI/WSDL and using the OGC Location Services Navigation Interface standard. Barry can find and validate the location of Trafalgar by accessing a gazatteer service (by UDDI/WSDL and OGC Gazatteer interface). This information allows the navigation service to compute the best route from home to theatre via Trafalgar Square. The map portrayal can then be handled using the OGC Style Layer Descriptor (uses XSLT to express styling rules) and the OGC Web Map Service to actually generate the image for presentation at the browser. Pie in the sky? Nope. Our members have built and deployed products and applications that use all the spatial technololgy mentioned above. Just thought that this might be interesting. Carl Reed, PhD OGC Executive Director OGC: Helping the World to Communicate Geographically

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• Tomorrow's Web Today
  2004-06-14 02:15:05 jwenting [Reply]
  
  You could take it further using wireless technology and have Barry report directly to your PDA or car nav computer to report on any trouble up ahead (traffic jams, roadworks, etc.).