Apache SIS is a spatial framework that enables better representation of coordinates for searching, data clustering, archiving, or any other relevant spatial needs.
Apache SIS is an effort undergoing incubation at the Apache Software Foundation, sponsored by the Apache Incubator PMC. Incubation is required of all newly accepted projects until a further review indicates that the infrastructure, communications, and decision making process have stabilized in a manner consistent with other successful ASF projects. While incubation status is not necessarily a reflection of the completeness or stability of the code, it does indicate that the project has yet to be fully endorsed by the ASF.
Chris Mattmann is working on refactoring the LocalLucene code into the SIS codebase and work continues on creating the SIS incubator website with Sean McCleese leading the charge. Patrick O'Leary is investigating map projections and coordinate systems including transformations to Polar coordinates which should help on the observational data side.
Chris Mattmann has finished importing the LocalLucene code into the SIS codebase and Patrick O'Leary has compiled around ~50,000 geocoded records for development/testing of SIS spatial functions. Work on creating the SIS incubator website has begun led by Sean McCleese as well.
There was a lot of positive interest from the Incubator community during the SIS proposal and voting process. We recently stood up our mailing lists and have begun to report JIRA issues, so we hope those are positive first steps to building an Apache-based community. Chris Mattmann discussed SIS over in the Lucene community as something to watch in terms of a common place for spatial code for Solr and Lucene to reside.
All mailing lists have been set up, all SVN accounts are up, and karma has been granted to all SIS committers. Sean McCleese and Patrick O'Leary volunteered to be list moderators, and Chris Mattmann is working on importing the Local Lucene code and standing up the SIS website. We will also begin work soon on porting the license headers for Local Lucene into SIS ASL 2.0 headers, and to port the package names for code (JIRA issues to be filed on this).
