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April 12, 2006

OGC issues GO-1 Request for Comments

Wayland, MA, May 26, 2004 – OGC Request 19: OpenGIS® GO-1 Application Objects (GO-1) Implementation Specification: Decision Support Working Group, A Request for Comments The purpose of this Request for Comment (RFC) is to obtain comments on the proposal for technologies and interfaces required for the OpenGIS GO-1 Application Objects (GO-1) Implementation Specification.Under this request, comments are sought from industry, for a thirty (30) day period ending 25 May 2004, concerning this technology.Comments that have already been received can be found at http://mail.opengeospatial.org/mailman/listinfo/go1-rfc .If you wish to be added to the distribution list for these comments, please sign-up at http://mail.opengeospatial.org/mailman/listinfo/go1-rfc >.Your comments should be sent directly to the Open GIS Consortium (electronic mail preferred – see above), prior to 25 June 2004.

April 12, 2006

OGC Invites Participation in Web Services Interoperability Experiment

Wayland, MA, May 25, 2004 – The Open GIS Consortium Inc. (OGC) invites participation in an Interoperability Experiment that will result in a proposed XML schema for encoding OGC Web Services Context documents (OWS Context).Cadcorp, DM Solutions, GeoConnections/Natural Resources Canada, and IONIC Software have initiated the OGC Web Services Context Document Schema Interoperability Experiment.The OpenGIS Web Map Service Specification (WMS), used widely in the marketplace, specifies how individual web map servers describe and provide their map content.Building on the Web Map Context Document, the OWS Context Document experiment will produce a draft schema for referencing other OGC Web Services, such as Web Feature Services (WFS) and Web Coverage Services (WCS).Interoperability Experiments, a new kind of OGC Interoperability Initiative, are brief, low-overhead initiatives led and executed by OGC members to achieve specific technical objectives that further the OGC Technical Baseline.

April 12, 2006

OGC Announces First Interoperability Experiment Tackling LandXML and GML Interoperability

Wayland, MA, May 11, 2004 – The Open GIS Consortium Inc. (OGC) announced that its first Interoperability Experiment (IE) will test a GML 3.0 application schema for encoding LandXML 1.0 documents (LandGML) and will provide a tool to transform LandXML 1.0 documents into LandGML documents.In a second phase, a tool will be developed to transform LandGML documents to LandXML 1.0 documents.The OpenGIS® Geography Markup Language (GML) is an XML encoding for geospatial data developed by OGC members.An Interoperability Experiment is primarily led and executed by OGC members, and is intended to achieve a technical objective that furthers OGC goals for standards and interoperability.Detailed instructions for potential participants, who must be OGC members, are available at http://www.opengeospatial.org/initiatives/?iid=133 .

April 12, 2006

OGC Announces Canadian Interoperability Day to be held in Ottawa April 23

The Open GIS Consortium (OGC) announced the Canadian Interoperability Day, an all-day event to be held on April 23 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.The Canadian Interoperability Day is sponsored by OGC, PCI Geomatics and GeoConnections – a Canadian partnership initiative led by Natural Resources Canada.Canadian agencies, organizations and companies will attend the Canadian Interoperability Day to learn about, witness and discuss the use of the Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure (CGDI) and the OpenGIS(R) Specifications that are a central part of the CGDIs standards infrastructure.The Canadian Interoperability Day is free and open to employees of the Canadian federal government, but attendees must register at the OGCs web site at http://www.opengeospatial.org/events/?page=040423 .About PCI Geomatics PCI Geomatics is a world leading developer of image-centric geomatics software solutions.

April 12, 2006

OGC Begins Emergency Mapping Symbology Initiative

Wayland, MA, April 14, 2004 – The Open GIS Consortium Inc. (OGC) announced the successful completion of the Emergency Mapping Symbology (EMS) Testbed.The project, begun in January 2004, enhanced and tested OpenGIS® Specifications that enable the use of multiple symbol sets with one set of geospatial feature data.The EMS Initiative matured the OGCs specification framework for interoperable geographic symbolization while simultaneously testing emerging standard map symbol sets for emergency response developed by national-level agencies.The effort employed the Emergency Response Map Symbology (ERMS) set being defined by the Federal Geographic Data Committees (FGDC) Homeland Security Work Group.About GeoConnections GeoConnections, a national partnership initiative led by Natural Resources Canada, is working to build the Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure (CGDI), which is making Canadas geospatial databases, tools and services readily accessible on-line.

April 12, 2006

OGC Members Bring Interoperability to GITA Conference

Members of the Open GIS Consortium (OGC) will demonstrate how that can happen using OpenGIS(R) Interface Specifications at the Geospatial Information Technology Association (GITA) Annual Conference 27 in Seattle, Washington April 25-28, 2004.OGC members will demonstrate how their products take advantage of OGC interfaces to optimize discovery, access, integration and application of geospatial information and applications on servers accessible via the Internet.Vendors will illustrate a range of OpenGIS Specifications, including Web Map Service (WMS), Web Feature Service (WFS), Coordinate Transformation, Grid Coverages, Simple Features, Catalog and Geography Markup Language (GML) Specifications.Attendees are also invited to a half-day seminar titled Open GIS-Improving Interoperability and sessions on OGC topics including Open GIS Interoperability: A Requirement for Critical Infrastructure Protection and Homeland Security and Geospatial Interoperability by Design.The specifications empower technology developers to make complex spatial information and services accessible and useful with all kinds of applications.

April 12, 2006

Explore Geographic Digital Rights Management with the GeoData Alliance and Partners

The GeoData Alliance (GDA) has partnered with OGC and other organizations to advance the implementation of an interoperable digital rights management framework for geographic data and services.Geospatial DRM manages all rights, not only the rights applicable to permissions over digital geographic data.An afternoon working group, 1-4 pm, will begin the formulation of a prototype geographic digital rights management reference model.This model will be developed based the outcomes of the Open Data Consortium ( http://www.opendataconsortium.org ) activities.The purpose of GDA is to foster trusted and inclusive processes to enable the creation, effective and equitable flow, and beneficial use of geographic information.

April 12, 2006

OGC Announces Meetings and Canadian Interoperability Day in Ottawa, April 23

The OGC also announced that PCI Geomatics and GeoConnections are sponsoring a Canadian Interoperability Day, a one-day event on April 23 to be held at the same location.The Canadian Interoperability Day is free and open to employees of the Canadian federal government, but attendees must register at OGCs Web site.About OGC OGC is an international industry consortium of more than 250 companies, government agencies and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available interface specifications.About PCI Geomatics PCI Geomatics is a world-leading developer of image-centric geomatics software solutions.PCI Geomatics flagship solution, Geomatica, meets the growing demands of the Remote Sensing, GIS, Cartography, and Photogrammetry worlds.

April 12, 2006

OGC Members Bring Interoperability To GeoTec Event

Members of the Open GIS Consortium (OGC) will demonstrate how that can happen using OpenGIS(R) Interface Specifications at the GeoTec Event 2004 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada March 28-31, 2004.OGC members will demonstrate how their products take advantage of OGC interfaces to optimize discovery, access, integration and application of geospatial information and applications on servers accessible via the Internet.Vendors will illustrate a range of OpenGIS Specifications, including Web Map Service (WMS), Web Feature Service (WFS), Coordinate Transformation, Grid Coverages, Simple Features, Catalog and Geography Markup Language (GML) Specifications.There will also be a panel discussion on OGC Interoperability through Oracle Database Toolkits.OpenGIS® Specifications support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.