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March 13, 2009

PCI Geomatics Becomes OGC Strategic Member

Wayland, Mass., March 13, 2009 – The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC®) announces that PCI Geomatics has upgraded its OGC membership level to Strategic membership.PCI Geomatics (as PCI Remote Sensing) was one of the eight charter members of OGC at its founding in 1994.Strategic Membership is the highest level of OGC membership.Mark Reichardt, OGC President and CEO of the OGC, comments, We are extremely fortunate to have PCI Geomatics as a Strategic Member of the Consortium.In addition to their continued commitment to advancing OGC standards, PCI will mobilize significant energy and resources to help OGC further globalize its standards and programs in nations and regions where the OGC is underrepresented.

March 12, 2009

OGC Receives GIS Development Professional Service to Geospatial Community Award

At the recent Map World Forum trade show and conference in Hyderabad, India, Indias GIS Development communication network awarded the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC(R)) GIS Developments Professional Service to Geospatial Community Award.OGC president and CEO Mark Reichardt accepted the award on behalf of OGC members, staff and Board of Directors.Reichardt and OGC Director Bob Moses held an OGC Global Advisory Council fact finding session with 15 prominent industry and government leaders.A Steering Committee under the Global Advisory Council will be formed to help Indian OGC members create an OGC India Forum and to help with outreach to the Indian user community.The OGC® is an international consortium of more than 370 companies, government agencies, research organizations, and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available geospatial standards.

March 12, 2009

OGC(R) Requests Comments on Candidate Specification Model Standard

– The membership of the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) is requesting comments from the public on the candidate OGC Document, The OGC Specification Model – Writing Modular Specifications.This will help standardize the manner in which OGC standards are written and implemented, making implementations easier to test for compliance, thus improving interoperability between and swap-ability between implementations.The intent is to edit the Specification Model candidate standard and move the document to be an approved OGC standard.The Specification Model Request for Comment document can be downloaded from http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/55.OGC Standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.

March 5, 2009

OGC Seeks Participants for Ocean Science Interoperability Experiment Phase II

Wayland, MA, March 5, 2009 – The Open Geospatial Consortium Inc. (OGC(R)) will launch the second phase of an Interoperability Experiment on ocean science interoperability at a meeting (http://www.oostethys.org/oceansie2) on March 20, 2009.The initiators of the experiment seek participation by other organizations interested in interoperability among information systems used in ocean research.In December 2006 OGC members started Oceans Science Interoperability Experiment Phase I (Oceans IE Phase I) to investigate use of services implementing the OpenGIS(TM) Web Feature Services (WFS) and Sensor Observation Services (SOS) Interface Standards for representing and exchanging point data records from fixed in-situ marine platforms.Potentially, the participants will submit to the OGC Technical Committee change requests for existing OGC standards to influence evolution of these standards.The Interoperability Experiment is not expected to result in new OGC standards.

February 27, 2009

OGC(R) Requests Comments on Candidate Web Map Tiling Standard

– The membership of the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC®) is requesting comments from the public on the candidate OpenGIS® Web Map Tiling Service (WMTS) Interface Standard.The candidate WMTS Interface Standard is much like the OGCs popular Web Map Server (WMS) Interface Standard, but it enables better server performance in applications that involve many simultaneous requests.The OGC® is an international consortium of more than 370 companies, government agencies, research organizations, and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available geospatial standards.OpenGIS® Standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.OGC Standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.

February 25, 2009

The OGC forms a Spatial Law and Policy Committee

The Board of Directors of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has chartered a committee of the Board to specifically address the spatial law and policy issues which will influence development requirements of the Consortiums technology process.The Spatial Law and Policy Committee (SLPC) will be chaired by OGC director and Executive Committee member, Kevin Pomfret, and will be organized under board leadership as an educational forum to include both select member and community participation.David Schell, OGC Chairman, said, The OGC plays an expanding role in addressing societys increasing dependence on geospatial information services.The OGCs Spatial Law and Policy Committee can play a critical role in the development of such a framework.The SLPC, in particular, will provide an open forum for OGC members legal and policy advisors to discuss the unique legal and policy issues associated with spatial data and technology.

February 17, 2009

The OGC Elects Directors

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) recently held its biennial election of directors.Of the 21 elected members of the consortiums 2009-2010 Board of Directors, 16 serving members were returned and four new members have been seated.The new OGC board members are Jeffery Peters, Kevin Pomfret, François Robida and Rob van de Velde.David Schell, OGC CEO and Chairman, said, The OGC community is extremely fortunate that these extraordinary individuals have agreed to serve on the Consortiums board.These standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.

January 30, 2009

OGC(R) Requests Comments on GeoLinking Service Standard

– The membership of the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) is requesting comments on the candidate standard OpenGIS(R) GeoLinking Service (GLS) Interface.For example, a table of populations of cities on one server may not contain the geometry information that describes the cities locations and boundaries, while a second server may house the cities geometry.After the OGCs GLS Standards Working Group has addressed comments received in response to the RFC, the draft standard will be submitted to the OGC Technical Committee and Planning Committee for their review and possible approval as an adopted OGC Standard.The OGC® is an international consortium of more than 365 companies, government agencies, research organizations, and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available geospatial standards.OGC Standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.

January 28, 2009

OGC(R) Requests Comments on Earth Observation Extension of ebRIM Profile of OGC Catalog Standard

– The members of the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) have submitted a Request for Comments (RFC) on version 0.2.2 of the Earth Observation (EO) Products Extension Package for ebRIM (ISO/TS 15000-3) Profile of CSW 2.0 (OGC document 06-131).CSW (Catalog Services – Web) is an OGC standard that specifies a catalogue application profile based on ISO19115:2003/ISO19119:2005 metadata with support for XML encoding per ISO/CD TS 19139 and HTTP protocol binding.)The EO Products Extension Package for ebRIM Profile of CSW 2.0 draft standard is an OGC Best Practice.It specifies an Application Profile of CSW 2.0 that is based on the OpenGIS® Geography Markup Language (GML) Encoding Standard Application Schema for EO Products.OGC Standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.