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USGIF and OGC are committed to organizing a conference focused on place-based policy. However, after discussions with several of our respective members and sponsors, we have decided that the community would be better served if this event were rescheduled.
I know I was confused regarding the name, timing and other issues.
- OGC/USGIF statement on OGC website
Steven Ramage, Executive Director, Marketing and Communications writes:
I would like to invite professionals to attend a one-day business session at a TC/PC meeting. This invitation is open to OGC members and non-OGC members who want to learn more about the business value of geospatial technology. Silver Spring is the first such meeting and more one-day business sessions are planned for the OGC meetings in Toulouse, France in September and in Sydney, Australia in December 2010.
This OGC event, “Deriving business value from geospatial standards,” will take place on Thursday 17th June at the NOAA Silver Spring offices in Maryland. The event is part of the OGC’s quarterly Technical Committee and Planning Committee meetings. You are invited to attend and learn more about the benefits of participating in this unique forum for independent, practical and forward thinking action in the field of international geospatial and location standards.
Here are some reasons why you should consider attendance at this meeting:
- You’ll have an opportunity to discuss the drivers and issues in the geospatial sector, notably where standards play a role.
- You can help drive and shape the inclusion of standards in policy.
- You can contribute to industry-wide issues that span all continents.
- You’ll contribute to the standards process and help determine business approaches for solving problems.
- You need to consider the bottom line impact of not addressing standards within your own organization/community or for your customers.There is no charge for attending this meeting. Please register here.
The OGC® is a global, not-for-profit organization comprised of more than 395 companies, government agencies, research organizations and universities. They all participate in a consensus process to develop publicly available geospatial standards. OGC standards enable interoperability that provides business and societal value in disaster management, defense and intelligence, environment and natural resources, mass market services, sensor webs and many other domains of activity and technology.
This week Adena Schutzberg offers a condensed verison of the presentation she gave last week at the NYS Geospatial Summit, in Skenateles, NY. It focuses on the challenges of finding, accessing and moving Web-based content both geospatial and otherwise, and highlights some technologies and tools addressing those challenges. She also looks into the future and predicts what she expects to see in these areas in the coming months and years.
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The announcements out of Where 2.0 from John Hanke of Google and Jack Dangermond regarding integrating neogeography with professional GIS (perhaps not the best terms, but I’m confident readers understand) are quite a lot to digest. (Video available here.) But that’s ok, both companies are resetting their visions with regard to the other, to data and to services and it’s certainly time for that.
Here’s the substance of the relevant announcements teased out of coverage from Where 2.0, where the two geotechnologists shared the stage yesterday.
- ArcGIS Server 9.3 (available in about 4 weeks, per Dangermond) will make its metadata service “scrapable” into KML and thus findable via Google’s geographic search (once known as KML search). Further, ArcGIS Server will be able to publish not only that data as streaming KML (and GeoRSS) but also related services. Dangermond showed finding data from a Portland, Oregon service, visualizing it and then performing analysis, all from Google Earth. Said another way, all data and services served by ArcGIS Server could potentially be findable and usable in any Google mashup. Further, the resultant KML can be used in app that supports the OGC standard.
