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April 12, 2007

Robert Frances Group Joins OGC® to Advance Location Into Business

Wayland, MA, April 12, 2007 – Robert Frances Group (RFG), an international Information Technology consulting and research group and the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc., have signed a Memorandum of Agreement to cooperate in promoting the use of geospatial technologies in business.The two organizations plan to leverage their strengths to enable organizations to better leverage and benefit from location information.Many executives are unaware of the possibilities available by exploiting location, said Ron Exler, Vice President and Research Fellow at RFG who leads their location work.It has published a number of research papers about the value of geospatial information in business.The specifications empower technology developers to make complex spatial information and services accessible and useful with all kinds of applications.

April 11, 2007

Rolta Takes Principal Membership in the OGC®

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) ( http://www.opengeospatial.org ) announced that Rolta India Ltd. has joined the OGC as a Principal Member.Principal Members have authority over the development, release and adoption of OpenGIS® Specifications through their voting rights in the OGC Planning Committee (PC).Rolta also shows that companies in the developing world who offer sophisticated technology services, including geospatial services, can do remarkably well in markets in developed nations.Ben Eazzetta, President of International Operations for Rolta, said, Standards, and the OGC, are important vehicles for globalization.Rolta is a leading provider and developer of Information Technology based GeoSpatial Information Systems (GIS), Engineering Design Automation Solutions and eSecurity services worldwide.The specifications empower technology developers to make complex spatial information and services accessible and useful with all kinds of applications.

April 10, 2007

The OGC® Approves Geospatial Digital Rights Reference Model

Wayland, Mass., April 10, 2007 – The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC®) is pleased to announce that its membership has approved an abstract specification for the management of digital rights in the area of geospatial data and services.The Geospatial Digital Rights Management Reference Model (GeoDRM RM) (available at https://portal.ogc.org/files/?artifact_id=17802 ), is Topic 18 of The OpenGIS® Abstract Specification.The goal of the GeoDRM effort in the OGC is to make sure that a larger market has access to geospatial resources through a well understood and common mechanism that enables more than todays all or nothing protection.A key aspect of the GeoDRM RM is that it is independent of the type of agreement between the participants.OpenGIS® Specifications support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.The specifications empower technology developers to make complex spatial information and services accessible and useful with all kinds of applications.

March 14, 2007

Bentley Systems, Incorporated Takes Principal Membership in the OGC®

Wayland, MA, March 13, 2007 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announced that Bentley Systems, Incorporated has upgraded to become a Principal Member in the OGC.Principal Members have complete authority over the specification release and adoption process through their voting rights in the Planning Committee (PC).The OGC is pleased that Bentley has chosen to assume a leadership position in the consortiums membership, Sam Bacharach, Executive Director of the Outreach Program, said.Carey Mann, Vice President Geospatial Solutions for Bentley, added, Bentley is pleased to take this central role at the OGC.Bentley Systems, Incorporated provides software for the lifecycle of the worlds infrastructure.2 provider of GIS/geospatial software solutions in a recent Daratech research study.To receive Bentley press releases as they are issued, visit www.bentley.com/bentleywire .

February 20, 2007

NGA Standards Document Features OGC Specifications

The U.S. Department of Defense National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) has issued a document, Enabling A Common Vision ( https://portal.ogc.org/files/?artifact_id=19983 ), which outlines the overall National System for Geospatial-Intelligence (NSG) standards baseline.Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Specifications figure prominently in this U.S. Federal and national baseline.Shortly after September 11, 2001, the National Center for Geospatial Intelligence Standards (NCGIS) was formed by the NGA to develop and coordinate geospatial standards with other Department of Defense (DoD) agencies, other intelligence agencies, standards organizations, civil agencies, private industry, and foreign partners.In Enabling A Common Vision, the NSG has endorsed a set of key specifications known collectively as the OGC Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) 1.0 baseline.These OGC standards include the OpenGIS® Specifications for Web Feature Service (WFS), Geography Markup Language (GML), Web Map Service (WMS), Styled Layer Descriptor (SLD), Catalogue Services (CS-Web), and Filter Encoding Specification (FE).The specifications empower technology developers to make complex spatial information and services accessible and useful with all kinds of applications.

February 20, 2007

OGC Seeking IP Team Members from Europe

gpercivall [at] opengeospatial.orgWayland, MA, February 20, 2007 – The Open Geospatial Consortium Inc. (OGC®) is seeking European companies, universities and individuals to pre-qualify to receive funding and work as part of the OGC Interoperability Program (OGC IP) Team.The companies, universities, and independent consultants who pre-qualify to be part of future Open Geospatial Consortium Interoperability Program Team (IP Team) activities will become IP Team Pool members and may be selected for future initiatives, including the OGCs 2007 OGC Web Services test bed, OWS-5.It is an ideal way for these organizations to support OGC initiatives in Europe as well as internationally, said Mark Reichardt, President of OGC.The IP Team is an engineering and management team that oversees and coordinates the OGC Interoperability Programs Interoperability Initiatives, which include test beds, pilot projects and interoperability experiments.Pool members are selected in accordance with the process defined in the OGC IP Team Invitation to Qualify (ITQ).

February 6, 2007

OGC® Seeks Comment on Observations & Measurements Specification

Wayland, Mass., February 6, 2007 – The members of the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) have approved the candidate OpenGIS® Observations & Measurements (O&M) Specification for release for a thirty day public comment period.The document can be downloaded from http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/37 The O&M candidate specification describes a framework and encoding for measurements and observations.This framework is required specifically for use by other OGC standards known as the OGC Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) capability as well as for general support for OGC compliant systems dealing in technical measurements in science and engineering.The aim is to define a number of terms used for measurements, and the relationships between them.OpenGIS Specifications support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.The specifications empower technology developers to make complex spatial information and services accessible and useful with all kinds of applications.

February 1, 2007

The OGC® Seeks Participants for Ocean Science Interoperability Experiment

The Open Geospatial Consortium Inc. (OGC) launched an Interoperability Experiment on ocean science interoperability on January 29, 2007.The initiators of the experiment seek participation by other organizations interested in interoperability among information systems used in ocean research.The Oceans Science Interoperability Experiment will promote understanding of various OGC Web Service (OWS) standards now implemented in various portal applications in the Ocean-Observing community, advance interoperability demonstrations for Ocean Science application areas, and harden software implementations.The final product of the experiment will be a candidate OGC Best Practices document for the broader ocean-observing community.Our partners around the country have years of experience using OGC specifications (e.g., www.oostethys.org ), and we welcome this opportunity to inform and advance the latest OGC standards.The specifications empower technology developers to make complex spatial information and services accessible and useful with all kinds of applications.

January 30, 2007

OGC® Announces Call for Sponsors for Fifth Spatial Open Web Services Initiative

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has issued a call for sponsors for the OGC Web Services, Phase 5 (OWS-5) Interoperability Initiative, a testbed to advance OGCs open interoperability framework for geospatial capabilities.The other will take a mainstream approach, with requirements centered on mass-market Web technologies like Web browsers, REST-based services and other lightweight, simple interfaces and information encodings.Alliances with other Standards Developing Organizations (SDOs) are an element of developing OGC specifications for the geospatial applications.In OGCs Interoperability Initiatives, international teams of technology providers work together to solve specific geoprocessing interoperability problems posed by the Initiatives sponsoring organizations.OpenGIS® Specifications support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.The specifications empower technology developers to make complex spatial information and services accessible and useful with all kinds of applications.