OpenGIS (OGC) Reaches Key Milestone in Development of a Geography Markup Language Specification to Enable Interoperable Web Mapp
Liege, Belgium, April 4, 2001: OGC, Inc. (the Open GIS Consortium) announces the availability of the OpenGIS Feature Geometry Request for Proposals for public review.The request aims to extend the interfaces in the OpenGIS Simple Features Implementation Specification, which gives diverse software systems an open, shared framework for describing features modeled with points, lines, and polygons.In addition, the timing of this proposal aligns with activities of the OpenGIS Interoperability Program, which will for the first time allow for a direct path from OGC organized testbed activities and the issuance of OGC Implementation Specification.In OGCs consensus-based standards development process, an RFP can be the first step toward developing an interoperability specification.The resulting proposals will be reviewed by the OGC technical committee, harmonized and later put up for a vote as Implementation Specifications.