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April 12, 2006

OpenGIS® Simple Features Specifications Available Now

Wayland, MA USA, September 5, 1997 – The Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) announced today that its recently announced OpenGIS Simple Features Specifications are now available to the public at http://www.opengeospatial.org .Strong demand for early access to the specifications prompted OGC to make them available during the final editing period.The OGC Technical Committee will make minor revisions during the next two months, leading to release of the Revision 1.0 specifications early in November.The three OpenGIS Simple Feature specifications enable programmers to write application software using interfaces that give applications open access to heterogeneous geographic data sources on three distributed computing platforms: Microsofts OLE/COM, the Object Management Groups CORBA, and SQL.The specifications were reviewed, demonstrated and approved at OGCs August 11-14 Technical Committee and Management Committee meetings at Cambridge University, Cambridge, England.

April 12, 2006

OpenGIS® Specification Marks New Era of Geo-Information Access

This first release of OpenGIS interfaces (OGC Request Number 1: OpenGIS Simple Features) was the result of an extraordinary collaborative effort among members, many of whom normally compete with each other.Since August, 1994, the OGC committees have met to solve technical and market problems that have restricted the sharing of digital geographic data.The OpenGIS Simple Features submission for SQL (via the ODBC application programming interface) was the result of a joint submission by ESRI, IBM Corporation (Poughkeepsie, NY), Informix Software, Inc., MapInfo Corporation, and Oracle Corporation.The leading database vendors have already delivered versions of relational database systems t hat can store complex geographic data.The OpenGIS Simple Features Specification for SQL makes it possible to create open interfaces on these servers which will make the data accessible to client applications that understand these interfaces.

April 12, 2006

Robert Corell and Martin Faga Join Open GIS Consortium Board

Dr. Corell is chair of the interagency committee that developed and now coordinates the U.S.Dr. Corell graduated from Case Institute of Technology (BSME, 1956; Ph.D., 1964) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.S.M.E., 1959).Martin Faga is Senior Vice President and General Manager, Center for Integrated Intelligence Systems at The MITRE Corporation in McLean, Virginia.The Center serves Department of Defense and Intelligence Community Sponsors in the integration of intelligence systems from sensor through presentation to the ultimate user.About OGC OGC coordinates development of the OpenGIS Specification and also organizes related business development and institutional adoption of open systems approaches to the collection, management, distribution, and processing of digital geographic information.

April 12, 2006

Open GIS Consortium Announces Six New Members

Wayland, Massachusetts, USA April 8, 1997 – The Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) announced today that six organizations became members in February and March of 1997, bringing OGCs total membership to 94.OGC coordinates development of the OpenGIS Specification for common interfaces and services that support access to diverse geographic data and geoprocessing resources in networked computing environments.SGI, maker of high performance graphics workstations and servers, has many customers involved in applications such as geographic information systems (GIS), Earth imaging, and distributed interactive simulation.OPEN INTELLECTs Atlanta Metropolitan Forum for Open Spatial Information Systems supports the efforts of both OGC and the Federal Geographic Data Committee.OGC coordinates development of the OpenGIS Specification and also facilitates related business development and institutional adoption of open systems approaches to the collection, management, distribution, and processing of digital geographic information.

April 12, 2006

Clifford Kottman Joins OGC as Vice President, Technology Development

Wayland, Massachusetts, USA April 1, 1997 – The Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) announced today that Dr. Clifford A. Kottman, formerly of The MITRE Corporation, has become OGCs Vice President, Technology Development.Prior to joining MITRE, Dr. Kottman was an Executive Manager responsible for Federal Systems Division marketing at the Reston, VA, office of Intergraph Corporation.He represented Intergraph to ANSI X3L1, Open GIS Consortium, ISO TC 211, the NIBS CADD Council, and he chaired the ACSM Standards Committee.Dr. Kottman has a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Iowa and a B.S.OGC coordinates development of the OpenGIS Specification and also facilitates business development related to open systems approaches to the collection, management, distribution, and processing of digital geographic information.

April 12, 2006

Siemens Nixdorf Becomes a Principal Member of the Open GIS Consortium

Wayland, Massachusetts, USA, March 24, 1997 – The Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) announced today that Siemens Nixdorf Information Systems AG (SNI) has become a Principal Member of the consortium.As a Principal Member, SNI has a seat on OGCs Management Committee, which oversees the OGC Technical Committee and plans cooperative industry development programs.We seek to make geographic data and geoprocessing an integral part of enterprise information systems around the world, and Siemens Nixdorf will help us make that vision a reality.Gunter Wagner, Siemens Nixdorfs European GIS Manager, said, OGC has given the GIS industry a temendous push at the international level.About OGC OGC, an open consortium of 90 corporations, government agencies, non-governmental organizations and universities, coordinates collaborative development of open geoprocessing software technologies.

January 28, 1997

Continuing Progress Toward Open Geoprocessing

The Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) announced today that it has received excellent responses to its recent Requests for Information (RFIs) which are part of the OpenGIS Interoperability Specification effort. The RFIs cover geographic information catalog services and imagery. Seven organizations submitted information in response to the “OpenGIS Catalog Services RFI.”

January 2, 1997

New Members Join Open GIS Consortium in November and December, 1996

The Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) announced today that in November and December, 1996, the following organizations became members of the consortium: Microsoft Corporation, Autodesk, Inc., Member.Booz Allen & Hamilton, Inc., Regional Science Institute, LAS (Logiciels et Applications Scientifiques), Inc., Urban Logic, Inc., Pusan National University, and INHA National University/

January 2, 1997

Microsoft Joins Open GIS Consortium

The Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) announced today that Microsoft Corporation (Redmond, WA) has become a Principal Member of the consortium