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April 12, 2006

ORDNANCE SURVEY Joins OGC

Wayland, Massachusetts, USA March 31, 1998 – The Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) announced today that Ordnance Survey, the National Mapping Agency of Great Britain, has joined OGC as a Technical Committee member.Ordnance Survey is the first major non-US government agency to join OGC.About Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey employs around 1850 people in their headquarters in Southampton and in 81 offices across Britain.The NTD is also the prime source of information used to create a wide range of Ordnance Survey products at many scales, from paper maps to digital datasets.UKs Ordnance Survey joins a group of US federal agencies in OGC, including the US Geological Survey National Mapping Division, Department of Defense National Imagery and Mapping Agency, NASA National Space Science Data Center, and the Department of Agriculture National Resources Conservation Service.

April 12, 2006

OGC Announces Further Progress Toward Open Geoprocessing

These most recent OGC bimonthly meetings were hosted by Siemens Nixdorf Informationssystemes (SNI) (Munich, Germany), a Principal Member of OGC.It goes the next step beyond the first OpenGIS Implementation Specifications for Simple Features.OpenGIS Grid Coverages Implementation Specifications will provide standard methods for systems to create and share additional types of geospatial information.The Open GIS Consortium is an international organization of 118 members engaged in a cooperative effort to create open computing specifications in the area of geoprocessing.OGC envisions the full integration of geospatial data and geoprocessing resources into mainstream computing and the widespread use of interoperable, commercial geoprocessing software throughout the information infrastructure.

April 12, 2006

OGC Announces OpenGIS Specification Milestones

Wayland, Massachusetts, USA, February 27, 1998 – The Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) announced today two important milestones in the development of its OpenGIS Specification, a specification for software interfaces that will give computer users easy access to complex geospatial data and geographic information processing capabilities.The RFPs request the submission of proposed detailed engineering specifications for software interfaces which implement recently completed parts of OGCs OpenGIS Abstract Specification.One of the RFPs is called the Grid Coverages RFP, which goes the next step beyond the first OpenGIS Implementation Specifications for Simple Features.The previously completed Simple Features Implementation Specifications provide standard methods for systems to communicate simple geometry, spatial reference system, and attribute information.OpenGIS Implementation Specifications for Catalogs will provide standard methods for publishing and discovering information about network-resident geodata.

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.