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April 12, 2006

OGC Teams with GIS Development

Wayland, Mass, and Uttar Pradesh, India, September 16, 2005 – The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) and GIS Development Pvt.Ltd recently entered into a Memorandum of Understanding to grow the market for interoperable geospatial solutions in Asia Pacific and Middle East.They also work together to attract organizations from the areas into OGC membership and GIS Development programs.GIS Development promotes the use of geospatial technologies for the community at large by fostering the growing network of those interested in geo-informatics worldwide.GIS Development strives to promote and propagate the usage of geospatial technologies in various areas of development for the community at large.

April 12, 2006

OGC and DGIWG Announce Memorandum of Understanding

Wayland, MA, September 9, 2005 – The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) announced the signing of a formal Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Digital Geospatial Information Working Group (DGIWG) Secretariat and the OGC.DGIWG wishes to transition from creating military specific standards to using consensus industry and international standards wherever possible.Mark Reichardt, OGC President, explained that the benefit to OGC comes from the close connection to users that this MOU provides.The OGC and DGIWG will at times collocate their meetings to provide an opportunity for the OGC and DGIWG member outreach, networking and discussion of programs and issues.OpenGIS® Specifications support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.

April 12, 2006

OGC Standards Enable Armchair Captains to Track Rolex Fastnet Races

Visitors to http://www.netandsea.com/fastnetrace/ see colorful maps from Netency with regularly updated data on 10 of the 250 yachts.Netency has covered a series of races on its website since January of this year.Netency can call different background maps for different races from different servers across the world.OGC specifications were really an important part of the architecture from its conception, in particular the OGC Web Map Service (WMS).Visit the OGC website at http://www.opengeospatial.org

April 12, 2006

OGC and COMCARE Announce Memorandum of Understanding

COMCARE Managing Director, Judith Woodhall said, The partnership between COMCARE and OGC could not be timelier.NEARS is a cooperative effort to demonstrate and deploy interoperable emergency data messaging.COMCARE promotes modern, interoperable emergency systems, and the development of new procedures, training, and tools to maximize value for emergency responders.COMCARE encourages cooperation across professional, jurisdictional and geographic lines, and works to integrate the emergency response professions, government, private industry and the public.COMCAREs 100+ organizational members represent the wide diversity of the emergency response community.

April 12, 2006

OGC Web Services for GEOSS Demonstrated at Workshop in Korea

Wayland, MA, August 5, 2005 – OGC Web Services (OWS) as applied to the Global Earth Observing System of Systems (GEOSS) architecture were successfully demonstrated to an IEEE-OGC-ISPRS GEOSS Workshop on 24 July 2005 in Seoul, Korea.The geospatial communitys development, adoption and implementation of OGC specifications provides a broad based capability to implement GEOSS.The GMU client accessed layers of Tsunami damage summaries provided by a server that implemented the OpenGIS Web Map Server Specification (WMS).Next, imagery was accessed from a Spot Image server – via an interface implementing the OpenGIS Web Coverage Server Specification(R) (WCS) – to see additional detailed damage from the Tsunami.OpenGIS® Specifications support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.

April 12, 2006

OGC Invites Comment on GML Simple Features Specification Profile

gmlsf-rfc [at] opengeospatial.orgWayland, MA, July 5th 2005 – The Open Geospatial Consortium Inc. (OGC) invites public comment on a candidate specification that will soon be presented for approval by OGC members as an OpenGIS® Implementation Specification Profile.The OGC candidate specification, GML simple features profile is available for downloading from http://www.opengeospatial.org/specs/?page=requests&request=rfc22 .Comments received will be consolidated and reviewed by OGC members for incorporation into the proposed specification.The GML Simple Feature Profile candidate specification defines a set of schema encoding rules that allow simple features, such as points, lines, and polygons, to be described using GML application schemas.This specification defines: rigid coding patterns for the use of a subset of XML Schema constructs (XML Schema profile) and also rigid coding patterns for the use of a subset of GML constructs (GML profile).

April 12, 2006

OGC announces GALEON Interoperability Experiment

gpercivall [at] opengeospatial.orgWayland, MA, July 1, 2005 – The Open Geospatial Consortium Inc. (OGC) has announced that July 24, 2005 will be the kickoff date for an OGC Interoperability Experiment to support open access to atmospheric and oceanographic modeling and simulation outputs.The GALEON (Gateway or Geo-interface for Air Land Earth Ocean NetCDF) Interoperability Experiment will implement a geo-interface to netCDF datasets via the OpenGIS(R) Web Coverage Server (WCS 1.0) protocol specification.The initiators of the Interoperability Experiment are: Unidata/UCAR (University Corporation for Atmospheric Research), IMAA-CNR (Institute of Methodologies for Environmental Analysis of the Italian National Research Council), George Mason University, and the NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) Geospatial Interoperability Office.Other OGC members are encouraged to participate in or sign on as observers for this Interoperability Experiment.OpenGIS® Specifications support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.

April 12, 2006

OGC Invites Public Comment on GML in JPEG 2000 Specification

gmljp2-rfc [at] opengeospatial.orgWayland, MA, June 27, 2005 – The Open Geospatial Consortium Inc. (OGC®) invites public comment on a candidate specification that will soon be presented for approval by OGC members as an OpenGIS® Implementation Specification.The OGC Document, GML in JPEG 2000 for Geographic Imagery (GMLJP2) Implementation Specification, is available for downloading from https://portal.ogc.org/files/?artifact_id=11418 .The Geography Markup Language (GML) is an XML grammar for the encoding of geographic information including geographic features, coverages, observations, topology, geometry, coordinate reference systems, units of measure, time, and value objects.JPEG 2000 is a wavelet based encoding for imagery that provides the ability to include XML data for description of the image within the JPEG 2000 data file.The GML in JPEG 2000 for Geographic Imagery (GMLJP2) Implementation Specification defines the OGC standard method of using GML within JPEG 2000 images for geographic imagery.

April 12, 2006

Doug Nebert Receives OGCs Gardels Award

At the June meeting of the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC®) in St. Johns Newfoundland, Doug Nebert received OGCs seventh annual Kenneth G. Gardels Award.Doug Nebert is the Clearinghouse Coordinator at the US Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC).He has been the chair of the Global Spatial Data Infrastructure (GSDI) Technical Committee for many years and has been instrumental in the creation of numerous nations National Spatial Data Infrastructures.The award is given annually in memory of Kenneth Gardels, one of the founding directors of OGC and OGCs former director of academic programs.The specifications empower technology developers to make complex spatial information and services accessible and useful with all kinds of applications.