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April 12, 2006

OGC Announces Kick Off of OGC Web Services Initiative

jharrison [at] opengeospatial.orgWayland, MA, USA, October 23, 2001 – The Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) (Wayland, MA) announced that Phase 1 of its OGC Web Services Initiative (OWS-1) has begun.The OWS-1 initiative mission is the definition and specification of interfaces that support interoperability among geospatially enabled web services.Once a Web service is deployed, other applications and other Web services can discover and invoke the deployed service.The current OWS-1 Thread Set is focusing on: – Common Architecture: OGC Services Model, OGC Registry Services, and Sensor Model Language.Organizations interested in learning more about the OGC Web Services Initiative should contact Mr. Jeff Harrison, Director of OGC Interoperability Programs, (703) 491-9543,.

April 12, 2006

OGC and IIR Host GIS In Telecoms 2001 Seminar

The Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) (Wayland, MA) and IIR Conferences-UK (UK) announce their joint sponsorship of GIS In Telecoms 2001, a multi-speaker seminar to be held 12-15 November 2001 at the Intercontinental Geneva hotel in Geneva, Switzerland.This IIR conference is the best place to hear from and talk with high-level technologists and managers from telecommunications operators and GIS companies who understand the unique spatial data needs of the telecoms market.GIS In Telecoms will also provide GIS software developers and data providers with a singular opportunity to learn about the specific needs of the telecoms market so they can make the right choices when adapting their product and service portfolios.Attendees will hear from Sam Bacharach, Manager of OGCs OpenLS (Open Location Services) Initiative Testbed, and Harry Niedzwiadek, the OpenLS Testbed Architect.This testbed is developing candidate open interface specifications that will provide the critical interoperability infrastructure for location services.

April 12, 2006

OGC and GITA to Join Forces on Geospatial Interoperability

Wayland, MA, USA, October 5, 2001 – The Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) and the Geospatial Information & Technology Association (GITA), Aurora, Colorado, have signed a memorandum of understanding aimed at working together to accomplish common objectives.GITA Executive Director Bob Samborski comments, GITA members are on the cutting edge of technology spanning many uses of geospatial technology.OGC President David Schell said, This partnership provides a superb opportunity for GITA and OGC to enhance our ability to meet the expanding needs of a growing community of spatial information users.OGCs process for introducing interoperability into the market depends on close communication with both the technology development and user communities.The mission of the Geospatial Information & Technology Association is to provide excellence in education and information exchange on the use and benefits of geospatial information and technology in telecommunications, infrastructure, and utility applications worldwide.

April 12, 2006

OGC and FGDC Grow Interoperability in Local Governments

The workshop aimed to connect new local government hosted map servers with National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) Clearinghouse data catalogs to enable greater use of spatial information.Attendees were recipients of FGDC Cooperative Agreement Program funding geared to help local organizations integrate NSDI Clearinghouse and Web Mapping capabilities.As part of the 2000 and 2001 CAP program, the FGDC provided assistance to twelve state and local GIS organizations to address Clearinghouse Integration with Web Mapping.Each recipient works with FGDC, OGC and integrators to enhance existing GIS data servers to support OGC interfaces and link the servers to National Geospatial Data Clearinghouse.For further information about the Web Map CAP Workshop, please contact Inquiries Mr. Jeff Harrison, Director of OGC Interoperability Programs,, or (703) 491-9543.

April 12, 2006

Twenty-nine Sponsors and Participants Tackle Interoperable Location Services in OGC Testbed

The use of open platforms in the fast growing location services sector will be a key market enabler, and will help increase the ability of companies offering location based services to compete across the various networks and platforms that characterize the global location services market.Achieving the full value for location services depends on consistent communication across different regions, technology platforms, networks, application domains, and classes of products.Each of the OpenLS Sponsors and Participants believes that a truly interoperable Open Location Services Platform is essential for long-term success in this market.OpenLS Testbed Sponsors include: Hutchison 3G, a mobile multi-media company, will be providing requirements, engineering and other technical expertise as part of the testbed.Together, the Sponsors and Participants will develop candidate interface specifications across multiple platforms in the location services universe.

April 12, 2006

OGC Object Domain Modeling Support Initiative Request For Quotation Available

jharrison [at] opengeospatial.orgWayland, MA, USA, August 31, 2001 – The Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) announces that a Request for Quotation (RFQ) for the Object Domain Modeling Support (ODMS) Initiative is available at http://ip.opengeospatial.org/odms .The ODMS Initiative aims to develop domain models for utilities as a vehicle to achieve semantic interoperability within and across information communities.The OGC is issuing this RFQ in collaboration with the CADD/GIS Center for Facilities, Infrastructure, and Environment (CADD/GIS Center).According to Dr. Warren Bennett, CADD/GIS Center, The OGC ODMS Initiative will help enable geospatial content sharing within and across information communities.Inquiries related to the ODMS Initiative should be addressed to Mr. Jeff Harrison, Director of OGC Interoperability Programs,, or (703) 491-9543.

April 12, 2006

OGC Recommendation Available to the Public

– The Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) announces that an OpenGIS® Recommendation has been made available to the public.The paper titled Recommended Definition Data for Coordinate Reference Systems and Coordinate Transformations is available for public review at http://www.opengeospatial.org/techno/specs.htm .This Recommendation Paper specifies a data model for metadata in support of the OpenGIS Coordinate Reference Systems (CRS) and Coordinate Transformations (CT) Implementation Specifications, and specifies standard definition data for the data model.That is, each of these two specifications is expected to use a subset and/or superset of the Definition Data described in the Recommendation Paper.Comments regarding this Recommendation Paper should be forwarded to the OGC Coordinate Transformation Working Group at.

April 12, 2006

OpenLS Day Participation Fuels OGC Initiative

lhecht [at] opengeospatial.orgWayland, MA, USA, August 8, 2001 – The Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) hosted 41 representatives from 35 companies and organizations at a July 31st meeting addressing its upcoming Open Location Services (OpenLS) Initiative.Response to a Call For Participation, issued in mid-July, has been brisk, with over 150 organizations downloading the document.The OpenLS Testbed follows several other successful OGC testbeds where software engineers work in a hands-on collaborative environment to develop candidate interoperability interfaces.Each of the sponsors sees the benefit of a truly interoperable location services framework.Visit the OGC website at www.opengeospatial.org and the OpenLS website at www.openls.org .

April 12, 2006

OGC Web Services Request For Quotation Now Available

jharrison [at] opengeospatial.orgWayland, MA, USA, July 26, 2001 – The Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) announces that the Request for Quotation (RFQ) for the Open Web Services Initiative, Phase 1 (OWS-1) is available at http://ip.opengeospatial.org/ows .A Web service is a self-contained, self-describing, modular application that can be published, located, and dynamically invoked across the Web.Web services perform functions, ranging from simple requests to complicated business processes.Once a Web service is deployed, other applications, and other Web services, can discover and invoke the deployed service.This effort will address an OGC Services Model, OGC Web Registry Services, and Sensor Markup Language in support of Sensor Web.