SpatialNews Press Release
OGC MEMBERS GO ONLINE AND INTEROPERABLE AT GITA CONFERENCE
www.opengis.org
www.gita.org
Wayland, MA, USA, February 26, 2002 - What does
interoperability look like? Fortunately, interoperability is far more
about what it enables, than what it looks like. Open GIS
Consortium, Inc. members are preparing to show off their
interoperable solutions as part of a real-time demonstration of
standards-based commercial off-the-shelf geoprocessing software
at the upcoming GITA conference in Tampa, March 17-20, 2002.
The demonstration will be presented on the exhibition floor and
will include live demonstrations from nearly a dozen OGC
members illustrating how, by using OGC Interoperability
Specifications, software products can work together, or plug and
play, across different vendor brands and computing platforms.
Through local area network (LAN) and dial-up connections,
vendors will demonstrate how their products take advantage of
OGC interfaces to optimize discovery, access, integration and
application of geospatial information and applications distributed
at various locations across the Internet. Autodesk, CubeWerx,
Cadcorp Inc., Dawn Corporation, ESRI, GE Network Solutions,
Hitachi Software Global Technology, Intergraph, IONIC Software,
MapInfo, Safe Software and other vendors will illustrate a range of
OpenGISŪ Specifications including Web Map Server, Web
Feature Server, Coordinate Transformation, Grid Coverages,
Simple Features, Catalog, and Geography Markup Language
(GML) Specifications. Conference attendees are encouraged to
visit each of the participating vendors for a chance to win a high-
tech prize.
Bob Samborski, GITA's Executive Director feels "this is an
unprecedented opportunity for everyone to gain an appreciation of
the implications of interoperability for their organizations. This is a
'must see' event, and I'm delighted that it will be part of our 25th
Anniversary Annual Conference!"
In addition to the demonstration, OGC will be active in several
panels. On Tuesday, March 19, 2002, 3:13-5:00pm, Bruce Cahan
of Urban Logic, Inc. will moderate a panel on the rescue and
recovery that followed the disaster at New York's World Trade
Center, with a major focus on how information consortia serving
the needs of government, utility and other infrastructure operators
can align investments in spatial information to help mitigate and
respond to future disasters. On Wednesday March 20 at 1:00 pm
the OGC will join the Federal Geographic Data Committee
(FGDC) for a roundtable, moderated by Milo Robinson of the
FGDC, focusing on the capabilities and challenges of spatial data
infrastructures to support collaborating communities. At the same
time, OGC's Cliff Kottman will moderate a panel on Web Mapping,
highlighting the functionality and use of OGC interfaces.
OGC is an international industry consortium of more than 230
companies, government agencies and universities participating in
a consensus process to develop publicly available geoprocessing
specifications. OpenGISŪ Specifications support interoperable
solutions that "geo-enable" the Web and mainstream IT, and
empower technology developers to make complex spatial
information and services accessible and useful with all kinds of
applications. Visit the OGC website at www.opengis.org
Further information about the GITA conference is available at
www.gita.org
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