The 2nd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Geospatial Data Access and Processing APIs (SpatialAPI 2020)

Co-organized with the 28th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL 2020)

Date: Tuesday, November, 3rd, 2020 from 09:00am EST to 04:00pm EST

Location: Seattle, WA, USA with Online Participation

News

  • Introductory videos and preparation instructions are now available for all tutorials.

  • The workshop program is now available. Download the Calendar event here. Register for the workshop here.

  • The list of accepted tutorials and the workshop schedule are now available.

  • The SIGSPATIAL executive committee decided that the conference and workshops will be online

Description

The goal of this workshop is to provide students and researchers with hands-on experience with useful APIs such as web APIs or library APIs related to spatial data processing. At the same time, it gives an opportunity for API providers to reach out to targeted audience that can use their APIs. This will be an excellent opportunity for researchers to get familiar with the APIs that are available for their research and development. At the same time, the API providers will be able to get direct feedback for their users to understand how to further improve their APIs and make them more user-friendly.

The tutorials will be done in a classroom-style setting where the audience will bring their laptops to follow the directions of the presenter. The room will be provided with a projector for the presenter and power and Internet for everyone. The organizers will be happy to entertain additional requirements by the presenters based on availability. We will encourage the speakers to share their material before the tutorials so that students can download any required datasets and install any prerequisite software. Remote participation will be available for those unable to travel due to COVID-19 restrictions.

Call for Proposals

The workshop is calling for tutorial proposals from the community. Accepted tutorials will have two 45-minute sessions to conduct their hands-on tutorial. In addition, each presenter will have the opportunity to give a teaser presentation of 5 minutes to attract the audience to attend their tutorial. Interested participants should submit a tutorial proposal that contains the following:

  • Title of the system or API that will be presented.

  • Web URL with information about the current API, e.g., project home page.

  • Short description of what the API covers.

  • Detailed description of which functionality or parts of the APIs that the proposed tutorial will cover.

  • Tentative 90-minute tutorial plan.

  • List of any additional material or prerequisites that you expect the tutorial attendees to have. You can assume that all attendees will have at least a laptop with Internet access and power plug. Any additional requirements or recommendations such as software, OS, libraries, or datasets, should be listed.

This year, to accommodate remote participation, we ask every accepted tutorial to include a GitHub (or similar) repository that contains self-explanatory instructions on how to follow the tutorial. This includes any prerequisite materials and downloads, source code, test datasets, and sample output of all steps that will run. Any sample API definitions (e.g., OpenAPI definition documents) may also be placed on the repository. This will facilitate a smooth tutorial to the speaker and the audience.

Our target audience mainly includes undergraduate and graduate students from different disciplines, and also some professors, and professionals from industry. Please make sure that your tutorial will address the audience with the right level of breadth and depth.

Proposals (up to two pages long) can be submitted to the following submission page.

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=spatialapi20

The proposals will be reviewed by the workshop chairs and advisory committee.

Important Dates

All deadlines are at 11:59 PM Pacific Time

  • Submission deadline: August, 31st, 2020 September, 15th, 2020

  • Notification deadline: September, 15th, 2020 October, 1st, 2020

  • Video Uploading deadline: October, 20th, 2020 (Anywhere on Earth)

  • Camera Ready Copy deadline: October, 20th, 2020 (12:00 PM Pacific Time)

  • Workshop day: November, 3rd, 2020 from 09:00am EST to 04:00pm EST

Download the Calendar event here.

Workshop Registration

Register for the workshop here. Free for a limited number of attendees with voucher code "iSIGSpatial20"

Organizers

Co-chair: Ahmed Eldawy - University of California, Riverside

Co-chair: Gobe Hobona - Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)

Program Committee

Heba Aly - Amazon

Peter Baumann - Jacobs University/Rasdaman

Michael Gordon - Ordnance Survey

Janet Reyes - University of California, Riverside

Ibrahim Sabek - MIT

Satish Sankaran - Esri

Martin Werner - Technical University of Munich

Accepted Tutorials

1. “SLIPO: Scalable Data Integration for Points of Interest”

Preparation instructions

Authors:

Michalis Alexakis, Spiros Athanasiou, Yannis Kouvaras, Kostas Patroumpas, Dimitrios Skoutas (Information Management Systems Institute, Athena Research Center, Greece)

2. “Cloud-Based Deep Learning on AWS Open Data Registry: Automatic Building and Road Extraction from Satellite and LiDAR”

Preparation instructions

Authors:

Yunzhi Shi, Xin Chen, Tianyu Zhang (Amazon Web Services)

3. “Workshop Proposal: PySAL: Python Spatial Analysis Library”

Preparation Instructions

Authors:

Sergio Rey, Elijah Knaap (University of California-Riverside)

Workshop Program

Download the Calendar event as an ICS here.

All the times below are in the local timezone.