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July 23, 2006

Simon Cox Receives OGCs Gardels Award

At the June meeting of the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC(R)) in Edinburgh, Scotland, Simon Cox received OGCs eighth annual Kenneth D. Gardels Award.The award is given annually in memory of Kenneth Gardels, one of the founding directors of OGC and OGCs former director of academic programs.Mr. Gardels coined the term Open GIS, and devoted his life to the humane and democratic uses of geographic information systems.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.

July 14, 2006

OGC Web Services for GEOSS Demonstrated at Workshop in China

Wayland, MA, June 15, 2006 – Interoperable OGC Web Services (OWS) applied to the Global Earth Observing System of Systems (GEOSS) architecture were successfully demonstrated at a 22-23 May 2006 workshop at the 2006 International Symposium on Future Intelligent Earth Observing Satellites (FIEOS06) in Beijing, China.This was the third in a series of GEOSS Architecture workshops organized by IEEE.The workshop, titled The User and GEOSS Architecture III, focused on wind energy and natural resource management.In China the aim to use satellite imagery and database information for wind resource mapping is higher than anywhere else I have seen.OpenGIS® Specifications support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless andlocation-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.

June 6, 2006

The OGC® Releases Basic Profile for Geography Markup Language (GML™)

Wayland, Mass., June 5, 2006 – The membership of the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC®) has approved and released the OpenGIS® Geography Markup Language (GML™) Simple Features Profile Specification.This standard defines a simple profile of GML version 3.1.1.The OGCs GML specification defines a large number of data encoding options that support a very wide variety of capabilities.The Simple Features profile specifies 2D geometry features such as Point, Curve (LineString), Surface (Polygon), MultiPoint, MultiCurve and MultiSurface.Profiles reduce the time and resources required for an organization to develop software and applications that use GML.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.

June 6, 2006

The OGC® Introduces New OGC Network and OGC User

The new version provides a unique entry point for developers and technology-oriented managers – members or not – who seek to build interoperable geospatial systems and services.Registered users can collaborate and add and edit content so the website is fresher and more accessible for developers with less background in standards.OGC Network provides a persistent demonstration capability and highlights components, services, information models and compliance testing resources.The specifications empower technology developers to make complex spatial information and services accessible and useful with all kinds of applications.Visit the OGC website at http://www.opengeospatial.org

June 6, 2006

GeoRSS Buzz Permeates Location Intelligence Conference

Wayland, Mass., May 03, 2006 – During the recent Location Intelligence 2006 conference, an emerging standard for geo-enabling RSS feeds, GeoRSS, garnered much positive attention.Currently sponsored by several organizations, including the OGC, GeoRSS embeds location into RSS feeds.Once GeoRSS is part of an application, it allows just about anyone to point a GeoRSS enabled feed at GeoRSS enabled software and instantly make a map.GeoRSS leverages this teeming ecosystem for geospatial technology, and with OGC support, GeoRSS is on firm conceptual ground and gains exposure across the industry.OpenGIS Specifications support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.

May 1, 2006

OGC® and IAI Join Forces to Advance Joint Standards

Fortunately, it is now possible, through collaboration on open standards, to remove the technical barriers that have prevented interoperability among the computer aided design and geospatial systems used in these activities.We look forward to working with the OGC to advance a standards framework that will bring these disciplines closer together.The alliance between IAI International and the OGC is a major step in addressing a coordinated standards solution.”The OGC is an international industry consortium of more than 300 companies, government agencies, research organizations, and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available interface specifications.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.

April 20, 2006

The OGC® Seeks Comment on Geospatial Catalog Application Profile

Wayland, Mass., April 20, 2006 – The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC®) has released a Request for Comment on a new candidate OGC standard: OpenGIS® Catalogue Services Specification 2.0.1 – ISO Metadata Application Profile.geospatial data, applications and services).With OGC catalogue services, client applications are capable of searching for geo-resources in a standardised way (i.e.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.

April 12, 2006

The OGC® Announces Call for Participation in OWS-4 Testbed

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has issued a Request for Quotes/Call for Participation (RFQ/CFP) for the OGC Web Services, Phase 4 (OWS-4) Interoperability Initiative, a testbed to advance OGCs open interoperability framework for geospatial capabilities.OWS-4 activities are proceeding in coordination with other standards initiatives in OASIS, IEEE and IAI.In OGCs Interoperability Initiatives, international teams of technology providers work together to solve specific geoprocessing interoperability problems posed by the Initiatives sponsoring organizations.OGC Interoperability Initiatives include test beds, pilot projects, interoperability experiments and interoperability support services – all designed to encourage rapid development, testing, validation and adoption of OGC standards.OpenGIS® Specifications support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.

April 12, 2006

OGC® Requests Public Comment on Sensor Web Enablement Specifications

requests [at] opengeospatial.orgWayland, Mass., April 5, 2006 – The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC®) invites public comment on several candidate standards developed in the OGCs Sensor Web Enablement initiative.Comments are requested on: Draft Sensor Model Language(SensorML) Encoding Specification defines general models and XML encodings for sensors and observation processing.A fourth specification, Draft Sensor Planning Service Implementation Specification (SPS), will be posted for comment in the near future.All four were enhanced in the recent OGC Web Services Phase 3 Interoperability Initiative (OWS -3).OpenGIS® Sensor Web Enablement Architecture Discussion Paper offers design and operational concepts for an architecture built on the above and other draft specifications.