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Landgate contributed the following write-up about SLIP, a network that provides access to 1200 WMS and WFS layers. If your organization uses OGC Standards and has a story to tell, particularly including why it uses OGC Standards and any "Lessons Learned," please contact <editor at openg...

The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC(R)) will participate in the 2008 Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) Conference ( http://www.foss4g2008.org/ ) September 29 - October 3, 2008 at Cape Town International Convention Centre, Cape Town, South Africa. FOSS4G 2008 is organize...

The members of the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) have adopted version 1.0.0 of the OpenGIS® CityGML Encoding Standard ( http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/citygml [http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/citygml] and www.citygmlwiki.org [http://www.citygmlwiki.org/] ) as a...

The August issue of GIM International carries a story about www.geobeijing.info. The portal was developed as a Master's thesis to serve attendees at the Olympic Games and also delegates to the recent ISPRS Congress. OGC's Simple Feature Specification and GML are used. The story is online a...

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has issued a Request for Quotes/Call for Participation (RFQ/CFP) for the OGC Web Services, Phase 6 (OWS-6) Interoperability Initiative, a testbed to advance OGC's open interoperability framework for geospatial capabilities. The RFQ/CFP will available at htt...

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has issued a Request for Quotes/Call for Participation (RFQ/CFP) for the OGC Web Services, Phase 6 (OWS-6) Interoperability Initiative, a testbed to advance OGC's open interoperability framework for geospatial capabilities. The RFQ/CFP will available ...

The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.(OGC) announced that on May 15 and 16, 2008, more than 40 researchers, members of the GEO (Group on Earth Observations) Secretariat and representatives of the European Commission met at the GEO offices in Geneva, Switzerland, to discuss concepts, ongoing activit...

The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC®) has held its biennial election and two new directors, Lisa Campbell and Dr. John C. Curlander, have been elected to the Board of Directors. Lisa Campbell is vice president in charge of Autodesk's Geospatial Solutions. In her role at Autodesk,...

The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC®) announced that a Call for Participation (CFP) in Phase 2 of the GEOSS (Global Earth Observation System of Systems) Architecture Implementation Pilot (AIP) has been issued by the GEO (Group on Earth Observations). Phase 1 of the AIP demonstrat...

The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) membership approved a 30 day public comment period for a revision to the OpenGIS® Web Coverage Service (WCS) Interface Standard. The revision includes two extensions to WCS: the WCS 1.1 Transaction Extension and the Web Coverage Processing Service...

The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC®) is inviting the public to offer change requests for consideration by the OGC Technical Committee on a revision of the OpenGIS® Geography Markup Language (GML) Encoding Standard. GML defines a data encoding in XML for geographic data and a gramm...

The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) and the Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC) announced that they have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to cooperate in advancing standards-based, interoperable workflow and Web-enabled geospatial content sharing, modeling and visualization to add...

OGC Interoperability Days will be held on Tuesday and Wednesday, June 3 and 4, 2008, in Potsdam, Germany. These events will coincide with the OGC Technical Committee meetings, which are being held in Potsdam that week. The first day will be in English and the second day in German. On Tuesday, Mar...