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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.

April 12, 2006

OpenLS Testbed Call For Participation Now Available

Wayland, MA, USA, July 10, 2001 – The Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) announces that the Call for Participation for the Open Location Services (OpenLS) Testbed is available at http://www.openls.org .The testbed will develop fundamental interfaces and services to allow a wide variety of location solutions to interoperate between infrastructure platforms and wireless devices.Organizations interested in participation or sponsorship of this testbed are invited to OpenLS Day on July 31, 2001 at the Hyatt Regency Reston, Reston VA. At the meeting OGC staff will discuss opportunities for involvement and sponsors will present their goals.Realizing the full value of location services depends on consistent communication across different regions, technology platforms, networks, application domains, and classes of products.The OpenLS Testbed follows several other successful OGC testbeds where technology developers worked in a hands-on collaborative environment to develop candidate interoperability interfaces, which were then implemented in their technology offerings.

April 12, 2006

Major Implementation of Geospatial Fusion Services Demonstrated

Geospatial fusion refers to the ability of interoperable technologies to integrate text with geoprocessing and web based services.For this demonstration, In-Q-Tel funded the integration of commercial component software, with integration made possible by candidate OpenGIS interfaces developed last year in OGCs Geospatial Fusion Services Testbed (GFST).The prototype system was built to evaluate the potential of OpenGIS interface-enabled Geospatial Fusion Services (GFS) technology in an operational setting.The demonstration was the conclusion of the Geospatial Fusion Pilot Project (GFPP), part of OGCs Interoperability Program.The Geospatial Fusion Services pilot validated the value of geospatial fusion services to initiative sponsors and participants and illustrated the flexibility and utility of these technologies.

April 12, 2006

OGC Installs Directors, Appoints VP

June 19, 2001, Wayland, MA, USA – The Open GIS Consortium (OGC) has had its biennial election of directors with the result that eight sitting directors have been re-elected and three new directors have been elected.OGC directors are elected as individuals and do not represent the companies with which they are professionally affiliated.Mr. King has been a valuable advisor to OGC management on business practice and strategy since before OGC was founded in 1994.Since 1995, as the first Principal Member representative to OGC, she has worked enthusiastically with OGC staff to support OGC and ensure the success of OpenGIS in the market.David Schell, OGCs President, commented, Like the consortium itself, the OGC board of directors has a significant role to play in the OpenGIS consensus process.

April 12, 2006

IBM Joins OGC

Open GIS Consortium, Inc. announced today that IBM is a Principal Member of the Open GIS Consortium (OGC).As a leader in driving industry standards adoption, IBM is pleased to be helping the OGC build a standards platform for communication of spatial information, said Jim Kelly, vice president of marketing, IBM Data Management Solutions.As a major business systems provider, IBM works to help customers in all industries achieve efficient and effective management and integration of geospatial data with business data.By working closely with OGC, IBM can provide critical input and participate in the process of developing these innovative technologies.IBM will then help customers build and deliver their own geospatial offerings, offerings that help make time and space part of their own information economy.

April 12, 2006

Arliss Whiteside Receives OGCs Gardels Award

June 07, 2001, Wayland, MA, USA – At the June meeting of the Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC), Arliss Whiteside received OGCs third annual Kenneth G. Gardels Award.The Gardels Award, a gold medallion, is awarded to individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to advance the vision of the OGC.In a letter to Mr. Whiteside, the OGC Board of Directors noted that Mr. Whitesides contribution has helped to significantly advance the Consortiums programs.The award is given annually in memory of Kenneth Gardels, one of the founding directors of OGC and OGCs director of academic programs.Mr. Gardels coined the term Open GIS, and devoted his life to the humane and democratic uses of GIS.

April 12, 2006

OGCE to Advise North Rhine Westphalia Interoperability Project

This will be the first Pilot Project for which OGCE has provided interoperability planning services.Finally, NRW Pilot Project is a key implementation of OGC specifications in a local government setting, an important step for communities worldwide.Heinz Brüggemann, of the Ministry of the Interior and member of the GI-Committee of North Rhine Westphalia, explains the vision of the project.The technology will serve the NRW state, city and county offices as parts of a general geographic data infrastructure of the state called GDI NRW.Within this infrastructure, Internet access will be available to all public and private geographic information available in NRW.

April 12, 2006

OGC Begins Military Pilot Project To Test Web Mapping Specifications

MPP-1, which began April 5 and will run through September 2001, has been organized to test and exercise newly developed OGC specifications in a near-operational user environment.At the end of a Pilot, major customers will see real world proof of interoperability between software products from different vendors enabled by interfaces implementing OpenGIS Specifications.Findings contribute to the refinement of the OpenGIS® Specifications that define the products interoperability interfaces.For example, MPP-1 will help enhance OpenGIS Specifications to accommodate three-dimensional photo-realistic terrain views over the Internet.Many military Coordinating Organizations currently use commercial products that vendors are now opening up with interfaces that implement OpenGIS Specifications.

April 12, 2006

Carl Reed Joins OGC as Director of Specification Programs

Wayland, MA, USA, May 10, 2001 – Dr. Carl Reed has joined the Open GIS Consortium as Director of Specification Programs.Dr. Reed joins the OGC with over 30 years experience in the GIS and location services industries.Prior to joining the OGC, Dr. Reed was a senior executive at Intergraph, Genasys and Autometric.Dr. Reed will manage the OGC Technical Committee process, focusing on the mission of developing formal OpenGIS Specifications.He will also facilitate the strategic planning initiatives of the OGC Planning Committee.