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April 12, 2006

Geospatial One-Stop Portal Call for Additional Requirements

portal-cfar-comments [at] sunrise.gsfc.nasa.govWayland, MA, USA, November 7, 2002 – The Geospatial One-Stop (GOS) initiative recently issued a Call for Additional Requirements for the Geospatial One-Stop Portal (see http://www.geo-one-stop.gov/cfar/ ).Geospatial One-Stop will provide a Portal for discovery of and access to certain basic themes of geospatial data, known as Framework data.Also, applications such as desktop GIS software, Decision Support Systems, and other services will be able to utilize the Geospatial One-Stop Portal through open software interfaces.The Portal is all about access, said NASAs Myra Bambacus, Acting Executive Director of Geospatial One-Stop.Respondents to the Call for Additional Requirements will help the Geospatial One-Stop Portal Team of state, local, and federal representatives develop the functional requirements of the Portal.

April 12, 2006

OGC Demonstrates Open Location Based Services Interfaces

Wayland, MA, USA, October 30, 2002 – Members of the Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) have publicly demonstrated a set of prototype interfaces and schemas that support Location-Based Services (LBS) interoperability.Location-Based Services employ real-time positioning technologies and networked resources to enable a wide variety of applications.The demonstration was held at the October 24-25 ETS1: Location-Based Services conference in Reston, Virginia USA.The demonstration marked successful completion of phase 1 of the OGC Open Location Services (OpenLS(TM)) Testbed Initiative.Users will expect, for example, continuity of location services when a cell phone roams from one carriers network to anothers.

April 12, 2006

OGC Seeks Sponsors for Web Services Initiative Feasibility Study

jharrison [at] opengeospatial.orgWayland, MA, USA, October 28, 2002 – The Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) today announced a Call for Sponsors for a Feasibility Study that will support the next phase of the OGC Web Services (OWS) Initiative.Past OWS initiatives significantly advanced interoperability and enhanced access, integration, maintenance and update capabilities for distributed geoprocessing services and sensors.OWS-2 Feasibility Study is an important step in planning for the next OGC Web Services Testbed.For more information on becoming a Sponsor of the OWS-2 Feasibility Study, please contact Mr. Jeff Harrison, OGC Executive Director, Interoperability Program, at (703) 628-8655, or at.OpenGIS® Specifications support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.

April 12, 2006

OGC Seeks Quotations/Participation in the GeoSpatial One-Stop Transportation Pilot Initiative and Demonstration

kbuehler [at] opengeospatial.orgWayland, MA, USA, October 4, 2002 – The Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) announces that a Request for Quotations (RFQ)/Call for Participation (CFP) in the OGC Geospatial One-Stop Transportation Pilot (GOS-TP) Initiative and Demonstration.This initiative is part of a larger Geospatial One-Stop project currently underway by the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC).More information about Geospatial One-Stop is available at http://www.fgdc.gov/geo-one-stop/ .A second facet of the GOS-TP initiative will focus on the generation of GML application schemas needed for the Geospatial One-Stop Data Content models.Part of the Geospatial One-Stop process is to develop standards and models for the geospatial framework data content.

April 12, 2006

OGCs President Receives CIO Magazines 20/20 Award

Wayland, MA, USA, October 4, 2002 – The Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) announced today that OGC President, David Schell this week received a CIO Magazine 20/20 Vision award as a visionary creator/seller of technology.Mr. Schell will participate with other 20/20 Vision award winners on a panel moderated by Esther Dyson at CIO Magazines Perspectives Conference, Oct. 6 – 8 at the Loews Coronado Bay Resort, San Diego, CA.See http://www.cio.com/archive/100102/honoree_dev.html The CIO 20/20 Vision Awards mark the first award program weve done to honor individuals instead of organizations, says Abbie Lundberg, CIO magazines editor-in-chief.Earlier this year, the leadership of the Geospatial Information & Technology Association (GITA) nominated Mr. Schell for the CIO 20/20 award.Davids CIO 20/20 Award is a fitting tribute to his vision and hard work, without which we wouldnt have these specifications.

April 12, 2006

OGC Approves Major Specifications for GeoSpatial Web Services

Vendor products that implement the Web Feature Service Specification can support distributed, Web-based geospatial feature data operations critical to government, commercial, academic and other applications.The Filter Encoding Specification enables any client to specify a query for information from WFS enabled server.The Style Layer Descriptor Implementation Specification provides the ability to describe rules for symbolizing maps.The Web Feature Service Implementation Specification describes feature database operations (e.g., points, lines, and polygons) making it possible for client and server applications to interoperate across the web.The OGC WFS, SLD and Filter Encoding represent an important addition to the emerging suite of OGC Web Services and will support interoperable implementations around the world.

April 12, 2006

OGC Announces Critical Infrastructure Protection Initiative Phase 2

jharrison [at] opengeospatial.orgRequest for Quotations Available Sept. 27 Wayland, MA, USA, September 24, 2002 – The Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) announced today the U.S. Census Bureau will sponsor the second phase of the Critical Infrastructure Protection Initiative, CIPI-2.The online editing system will be the first step to moving a currently manual system on the Web.WebTIGER aims to develop a standards-based Web server to serve TIGER® data and map images over the Web.The online TIGER Mapping service, developed as a stand-alone prototype system in the last decade, serves TIGER data from 1998.The OGC Census TIGER/GML® pilot is being conducted as part of CIPI to maximize collaboration and sharing of development activities, technology enhancements, OGC Critical Infrastructure Collaboration Environment (CICE) testing, and web services delivery.

April 12, 2006

Autodesk Becomes OGC Principal Plus Member

Wayland, MA, September 19, 2002 – The Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) announced today that Autodesk, Inc. (Nasdaq: ADSK) has become the first Principal Plus level OGC member.Autodesk has been an OGC member since 1994 and has been involved in several of its programs, including the recent OGC Web Services Initiative.In addition to the responsibilities of Principal Members, Principal Plus members dedicate resources directly to OGC programs.We are looking forward to the benefits of becoming the first OGC Principal Plus member and playing a leading role in the Critical Infrastructure and Protection Initiative to support security.For more information on the new Principal Plus OGC membership, please visit http://www.opengeospatial.org/about/mLevels.htm .

April 12, 2006

OGC Seeks Interested Parties for Public Transit Modeling Activity

This Transit MAT will develop data content standards and an associated Abstract Feature Model in Unified Modeling Language (UML), which will support the exchange of mapping information about public transit features between cooperating organizations and communities.This task is part of a larger effort to develop data content standards and other capabilities for the Geospatial One-Stop project currently underway by the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC).Content standards and models resulting from the MAT process will be submitted to American National Standards Institute (ANSI) for adoption.OGC is seeking expression of industry interest to participate in the Transit MAT to provide modeling support.OGC will make small scholarship funds available to compensate some of the interested organizations.