Tuesday, November 17. 2009

Opening Up Sensor Data

The EU-funded Sensors Anywhere (SANY) program offers the technical means to allow the free exchange and use of environmental monitoring data regardless of its source. It supports OGC standards. Several pilots are underway tracking air, water and land, with final results to be shared at an event on Nov 19 in Linz, Austria.

- Science Daily

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Monday, October 19. 2009

Podcast: A Hallway Conversation with Carl Reed

Adena Schutzberg interviewed the Open Geospatial Consortium's Carl Reed about the status of KML, OGC's new role in enabling discipline focussed efforts, why GeoRSS seems so hidden, INTERGEO and why the US is behind in using standards. This is the first in a series of interviews with geospatial insiders and outsiders.

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Standards, 3D, Hallway Conversations at 10:52 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) |

Wednesday, October 14. 2009

Happy World Standards Day!

It was back in 1946, when delegates from 25 countries came to London to create an international organization focused on facilitating standardization. The following year ISO was formed and in 1970 the day of recognition joined the calendar.

This year's theme: "Tackling climate change through standards."

So, a shout out to all our geospatial standards proponents, creators and users! This is hard work, that when best implemented, is invisible.

- ISO WSD page
- ISO PR
- The International News

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Standards at 06:00 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) |

Tuesday, September 8. 2009

TomTom Shares OpenLR Standard: What is it?

The press release says:

OpenLR has been designed for traffic information systems and dynamic route
guidance, and is available as an open-source technology a
http://www.tomtom.com/page/openLR. It can easily be adapted to the requirements
of system integrators, and the technical community can contribute with their
ideas to improve it.

Location data can range from static road sign information to highly dynamic
traffic and weather situation information as well as safety-critical information
- anything that needs to be accurately linked to a specific piece of or position
on the road network. The OpenLR technology allows location content providers to
reference any location on any navigable map, completely royalty-free.

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Open Source, Standards, Real-Time/Dynamic Data, Satellite Navigation, TomTom at 06:17 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) |

Tuesday, September 1. 2009

Podcast: OGC Gets into Real Estate, DigitalGlobe Readies Bird for Daily Revisits

Our editors ask: Why is the Open Geospatial Consortium hooking up with the Open Standards Consortium for Real Estate and what should potential users of DigitalGlobe's Worldview-2 satellite data be pondering before its launch planned for October?

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Oracle, Standards, Remote Sensing, Sensors, Directions on the News Podcast, DigitalGlobe, Geospatial Business, Satellite Imagery, Google Earth, Cloud Computing at 06:00 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) |

Thursday, August 27. 2009

Education Tidbits

Dr. Michael Scott of Salisbury University in Maryland teaches in the Geography and Geographic Sciences Department in the Richard A. Henson School of Science and Technology. He's won the University System of Maryland's Wilson H. Elkins Professorship including an $80,000 award.

In 2004, Scott established the Eastern Shore Regional Geographic Center which supports GIS in the regional and in local governments. The Center and has traced pollution in septic systems for the Maryland Department of the Environment, surveyed sensitive wetlands in Georgia, and digitizing Captain John Smith's 1612 exploratory map of the Chesapeake Bay. Scott founded the university's GIS-public administration master's program in 2007; it's the first of its kind in the country.

- DelMarVANOW.com

The deputy mayor of Amman, Jordan sponsored a graduation for city and country workers who took 48 hours of advanced GIS training. Even the trainers were given certificates of appreciation.

- menafm.com

OGC has announced a new website with learning resources. There is no way to search - there are broad topic and format categories ("mass media articles, " "video""compliance"). There's also no way until you click through to the resource to know its source or date. I hope OGC will consider letting users help tag (informal) or add metadata (formal) to the resources.

- press release

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