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April 12, 2006

BAE SYSTEMS Continues Strategic Member Role in OGC

Wayland, MA, April 3, 2003 – The Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) today announced that BAE SYSTEMS has renewed its Strategic Membership in OGC.BAE SYSTEMS joined OGC in 1995 and has been a Strategic Member of the Consortium since 2001.The OGC member companies have a strong history of aligning with commercial, national and international priorities and BAE SYSTEMS, as a large systems integrator, takes pride in our involvement with OGC.Under the terms of BAE SYSTEMS Strategic Membership the companys Information Systems Sector provides, on loan to OGC, a senior technical program manager.Mr. Arliss Whiteside, also a BAE SYSTEMS employee, continues to play an active role as the companys Technical Committee representative to OGC.

April 12, 2006

OGC Releases OpenGIS Reference Model

Wayland, MA, April 2, 2003 – The Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) today announced the public release of the OpenGIS(R) Reference Model (ORM).It can help providers of geospatial technology products and geographic data expand their market reach.In most cases, OpenGIS specifications are also submitted to ISO for adoption as international standards.The ORM summarizes and puts in context all the work that OGC members have done since 1994 to develop, test, and deploy OpenGIS Specifications.OpenGIS® Specifications support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.

April 12, 2006

OGC Seeks Sponsors for Property and Land Initiative

jharrison [at] opengeospatial.orgWayland, MA, USA, March 25, 2003 – The Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) is issuing a Call for Sponsors for a Planning Activity that may support future development of an OGC Property and Land Information (PLI) Initiative.Property and land information databases are an important resource that is essential to many activities such as managing property ownership, development, tax assessment, and government service provision.Property and land information are also vital to a range of other complimentary government, business and consumer services such as emergency response and recovery, real estate transactions, land planning, flood mapping, and risk assessment.The ultimate goal of the OGC Property and Land Information Initiative is to promote increased understanding of the application of OpenGIS® Specifications to the challenge of cross-organizational and cross jurisdictional access to critical information.The Initiative would seek to design, test and operationally validate open architectural frameworks for distributed property and land information networks.

April 12, 2006

OGC To Demonstrate Critical Infrastructure Protection Initiative

terry.idol [at] baesystems.comstanley.robinson [at] autodesk.comWayland, MA, USA, March 5, 2003 – The Open GIS Consortium, Inc.s (OGC) Critical Infrastructure Protection Initiative (CIPI) adds real world insight to the challenges of working with vital geospatial information and services required to support Critical Infrastructure Protection.Both U.S. and Canadian organizations are participating in this important study, contributing staff and data resources.CIPI is a series of pilot projects to advance interoperability for critical infrastructure protection and other vital services.Seating is limited and those interested are encouraged to contact Terry Idol (), the CIPI Phase 1 Initiative Manager or Stanley Robinson () the CIPI Phase 1 Operations and Demonstration Manager, to reserve a seat.The specifications empower technology developers to make complex spatial information and services accessible and useful with all kinds of applications.

April 12, 2006

OGC and IPE Announce Classes in Geospatial Interoperability

OGC has provided IPE with the opportunity to quickly develop interoperability based GIS seminars by providing access to high caliber resources through its members.

April 12, 2006

OGC Members Bring Interoperability To Key GIS Events in March

Sessions at the two conferences will also highlight OGCs contribution to making geospatial data and services work together.At the GeoTec Event, a three-paper session titled, Open GIS and the Internet highlights different approaches to solving interoperability challenges using OpenGIS interfaces.Our ongoing relationship with the Open GIS Consortium is expanding – and thats great news for our constituents from local governments, utilities and infrastructure-focused organizations of all types.The event theme, A Spirit of Collaboration, is designed to highlight progress toward geospatial interoperability, said Matt Ball, show manager of the GeoTec Event.Geospatial data initiatives and interoperability developments are breaking down barriers to unleash the collaborative power of geotechnology.

April 12, 2006

OGC Seeks Comment on Proposed Web Map Context Specification

Wayland, MA, February 19, 2003 – The Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) announces a Request for Comment (RFC) on the proposed Web Map Context Documents Implementation Specification.This proposed specification describes a standardized approach to enable the capture and maintenance of the context – or state information – of a Web Map Server (WMS) request so that this information can be reused easily in the future user session.This RFC is the result of Web Services work accomplished over the past few years as part of OGCs Interoperability Program of fast paced testbeds and pilot projects.This program has led to a foundation of web-based interoperability involving not only map display but also more sophisticated geoprocessing functions, as well as location based services, sensor and camera geolocation, web catalogs of spatial data and spatial web services, and other capabilities.The specifications empower technology developers to make complex spatial information and services accessible and useful with all kinds of applications.

April 12, 2006

OGC Elects Board of Directors

New directors are nominated by the board and are elected by the OGC Planning Committee, which oversees implementation of OGCs technology development plan in accordance with strategic directions set by the board.OGC directors are elected as individuals and do not represent the organizations with which they are professionally affiliated.Re-elected OGC directors include: S.J.OGCs Board of Directors is a very important part of the organizations process, providing strategic guidance, financial oversight and organizational guidelines for OGC operations.OGC directors provide professional and policy level credibility to the OpenGIS world movement.

April 12, 2006

OGC Approves GML 3

February 6, 2003, Wayland, MA, USA – The Open GIS Consortium (OGC) announces the approval and release of Geography Markup Language version 3.0 (GML 3).GML 3 is almost entirely backwards compatible with GML 2, so that developers and users familiar with GML 2 can begin working immediately with GML 3.Like GML 2, GML 3 will play a key role in both spatial data encoding and transport, and in the description of geographic objects for geospatial Web services.Kurt Buehler, OGC CTO explains GML 3s modular structure means that those choosing to use GML can literally pick out the schemas or schema components that apply to their work.GML 3.0 also includes a sample packaging tool that creates a tailored schema containing only the required components from the GML core schemas.